Armed with the knowledge about monitoring, let's look at how this changes in the hybrid cloud world or even just the cloud world. Can we not use the same systems that we were using in the traditional environment to monitor the new one?
The answer is yes, for the systems that it was made for monitoring, we can. This means there is no difference in whether we monitored a virtual or physical machine on premises or on the cloud; we can use the same mechanism.
However, is this recommended? The answer is, not really. If you ask why, let's take a look at the main reasons behind it, which are listed as follows:
- The cloud platform already monitors some of the resources (for the sake of autoscaling and the like); the old system of monitoring doesn't support these
- There are new services that are being used and the old system doesn't know how to monitor these systems (as an example of containers)
- There have been several improvements in the new tools to be more optimized, and...