MONITORING AS A SERVICE:

DEFINITION: Monitoring as a service (MaaS) is one of

many cloud delivery models under anything as a service
(XaaS). It is a framework that facilitates the deployment of
monitoring functionalities for various other services and
applications within the cloud. The most common application
for MaaS is online state monitoring, which continuously
tracks certain states of applications, networks, systems,
instances or any element that may be deployable within the
cloud.

EXAMPLES: MySQL Enterprise Monitor, Nagios/Icinga,

Cacti, Munin, etc.

CHARACTERSTICS:

Dashboards Visualize all your systems and resources in one place. Inspect critical charts
side-by-side with important logs. Find root cause of many issues by navigating back in time
and seeing how the overall system behaved before, during, or after problems occurred.
CloudMonix supports many types of servers, databases, infrastructure and more.

Metrics Track a wide variety of simple and complex metrics. CloudMonix supports
tracking and analyzing tons of important information about your systems every minute of
every hour. It is scalable and can grow with your business needs.

Alert Engine Stay in full control of how and when you are notified of production
problems. CloudMonix provides a sophisticated alert engine that can evaluate multiple
conditions simultaneously, based on real-time or sustained conditions using simple, complex,
aggregated or unstructured metrics.

Immediate Notifications With immediate notifications, CloudMonix allows IT

professionals to unplug from constantly watching monitors or dashboards and concentrate on
more important things, knowing that they will be aware of any issues as soon as they happen.

ADVANTAGES:

Cloud Monitoring as a Service is primarily used to provide a managed infrastructure and

resource monitoring service for cloud based IT infrastructures. It helps cloud administrators
in:
End to end Monitoring Monitor the performance and availability of entire IT resources
hosted on a Cloud Infrastructure

Maintain Performance Cloud Monitoring as a service ensures optimal performance of the

underlying IT infrastructure

Detect Cloud Infrastructure Issues Cloud Monitoring as a service helps cloud

administrators identify problems with the monitored cloud infrastructure as soon as they
happen