Learning Cloud Computing: Monitoring and Operations

Learn about cloud monitoring and observability in support of cloud operations, and how they impact reliability, resiliency, security, governance, and performance in the cloud.

Introduction

• The importance of cloud computing, observability, and operations
• A quick overview: Cloud monitoring, observability, and operations
• What you should know

1. Introduction to Cloud Monitoring, Observability, and Operations

• Cloud monitoring, observability, and operations basics
• Monitoring vs. observability
• Cloud health monitoring and observability
• Cloud performance monitoring and observability
• Cloud security monitoring and observability
• Cloud governance monitoring and observability

2. Monitoring, Observability, and Operations Basics

• Gathering ops data
• Storing ops data
• Analyzing ops data for observability
• Reacting to the data
• Automation vs. abstraction
• Self-healing example
• Cloud cost monitoring and observability (FinOps)
• Challenge: Jill's scarce wood needs to automate operations
• Solution: Jill's scarce wood needs to automate operations

3. Monitoring, Observability, and Operations Approaches

• Monitoring everything
• Monitoring some things
• Minimum viable cloud monitoring and observability
• Leveraging people for CloudOps and observability
• Leveraging automation for CloudOps and observability
• Challenge: Jill's scarce wood needs to leverage CloudOps people more effectively
• Solution: Jill's scarce wood needs to leverage CloudOps people more effectively

4. Cloud Monitoring and Observability Tools

• Cloud monitoring, observability, and operations tools: The basics
• Cloud native monitoring and observability tools
• Third-party monitoring and observability tools
• Multicloud monitoring and observability
• AIOps observability tools
• FinOps observability tools
• SecOps observability tools
• Challenge: Jill's scarce wood needs to pick an observability tool
• Solution: Jill's scarce wood needs to pick an observability tool

5. Cloud Monitoring and Observability Demos

• AWS cloud monitoring and observability demo
• Microsoft Azure cloud monitoring and observability demo
• What you saw

6. Picking Your Cloud Monitoring and Operations Solution

• Understanding your cloud monitoring and operations requirements
• Creating your cloud monitoring and operations plan
• Selecting the right cloud monitoring and operations tools
• Challenge: Jill's scarce wood needs to create a CloudOps plan
• Solution: Jill's scarce wood needs to create a CloudOps plan

Conclusion

• Next steps