Companies adopting a multi-cloud strategy find that an increasingly complex environment forces them to get stuck in maintenance mode rather than pursuing new multi-cloud strategies. Cisco reports that 73% of networking teams say maintaining the status quo takes precedence over new strategies. But new cloud monitoring approaches could be part of a streamlining strategy equipping teams for better IT management.
One of the biggest challenges of any cloud migration is equipping network teams to visualize how traffic moves between cloud networks and understand how cloud instances communicate. It’s also important for teams to have visibility as traffic moves through virtual private gateways. These are just a couple of examples, but let’s go deeper into five situations that demand cloud monitoring:
Application and Network Visibility: Network teams need to be able to visualize how cloud traffic is flowing. A solution that offers a picture of applications, pathways, and interfaces offers better visibility into how bandwidth is being utilized as traffic moves through various locations.
Hybrid Environments: Any application that moves from the on-premise network to the cloud and back will be challenging to track. A solution offering end-to-end path analysis with details of key performance indicators (KPIs) like network latency and packet loss can offer valuable insights.
Security: Companies advancing in cloud migration strategies should look for a solution that will monitor the source and destination of traffic to determine whether it should be allowed entry to the network. If an intrusion is identified, the network team should be provided with a recording of the activity of unwanted packets to determine the extent of a breach.
Costs: Granular-level analysis of network traffic is costly. A solution that measures bandwidth usage of applications and services can provide information about baseline activity and trends. This equips teams to focus on the services that use the most bandwidth and then compare to less-demanding applications to better plan for application and services costs.
Migration: Cloud migration is often heavily impacted by teams that don’t have a deep understanding of KPIs, basements, and how their measurement and monitoring impact a cloud migration. There are solutions available that improve visibility while measuring bandwidth and performance both pre- and post-deployment. Having a clear understanding of pre- and post-deployment KPIs improves the cost management and performance of any size cloud migration project.
Cloud monitoring can mean a lot of different things, whether it’s adding visual models that aid your network team in visualizing network traffic or better understanding baseline network traffic for security purposes. To learn more about the solutions available to address these areas, contact us at Cloud Source. We can help you leverage the best technology to improve the management of your IT environment.