CLOUD AGNOSTIC MONITORING TOOLS

2023-08-16

Monitoring is the key in cloud services, predicting errors and solving saturation problems before they happen contributes to an optimal user experience. However, multicloud development complexity also adds new requirements to monitoring tools as mentioned in our first blog: Challenges of Multi-cluster Monitoring. This has advanced the monitoring market to develop new applications capable to work in the heterogeneus cloud market and offering same performance and utilities as cloud native monitoring tools: Amazon’s CloudWatch, Google Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure Monitoring, Alibaba’s CloudMonitor, IBM’s Cloud Monitoring, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Monitoring and so on.

 

This table provides an overview of the key agnostic monitoring tools capable to work across public and private clouds:

	Interface and first steps	Alerting	Troubleshooting	Pricing
Datadog	Complex close-up Intuitive centralized interface No prebuilt dashboards	Machine learning alerts Integrated in the platform	Automation tools Difficult to track problems when scaling	Per month and host 3 plans according to features
Sumo Logic	Intelligent analysis of logs so as not to show highly replicated messages	Integrated scheduled searching	Tracking problems by alerting and dashboard	Per month and user 5 plans according to features
SemaText	Intuitive multi-dashboard Service auto-discovery	Integrated	Alerting with anomaly detection	Per month, host and retention Plans focused on monitoring or logs, according to features and capabilities
Zabbix	Intuitive Large community and documentation No hosting provided	Integrated	Flexible threshold levels for prediction and  problem detection	Open source

 

Other cloud monitoring providers: AppDynamics, CloudHealth by VMWare, New Relic, Dynatrace, Zabbix, Nagios and Icinga.

 

All these platforms offer powerful tools, compatible clouds and user friendly interfaces, but primarily lack on their predictive features. Project Charity focuses on reaching the highest performance of AR, VR and Holographic-based applications by predicting and not troubleshooting. Therefore, Project Charity develops algorithms for highly interactive services. Hence monitoring is not merely  a passive observer of network and resources, but becomes an important element in continuous communication with the collaborative platform, adapting itself in parallel to new architecture of services through different clouds.