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One of the critical priorities of customers in a cloud migration initiative is
to ensure minimal or no impact on performance and availability of workloads
being migrated. It is essential to build a holistic monitoring framework to
capture metrics on the health of infrastructure components, network, services,
databases, applications, and end-user experience.
Google Cloud tools
Google Cloud Observability
provides an integrated monitoring, logging, and trace managed services for
applications and systems running on Google Cloud and beyond.
Google Cloud Observability includes the following components:
For day 2 optimizations, Google's
Active Assist
portfolio of intelligent tools helps you optimize your cloud operations
with recommendations to reduce costs, increase performance, improve security,
and even help you make more sustainable decisions.
For more details, view an interactive demo.
Third-party tools
Examples of other commonly used monitoring tools include the following:
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