Challenges in Azure monitoring

Azure’s architecture is powerful yet complex. While its vast ecosystem of services enables flexibility, it also creates monitoring challenges. Fragmented visibility across multiple services makes it difficult to get a unified view of Azure cloud performance. The interdependent metrics among numerous cloud services make pinpointing root causes tricky. Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures add even more layers of complexity. Additionally, the sheer size and high transaction volumes of Azure cloud require scalable monitoring solutions. Without the right Azure monitoring tool, analyzing and understanding Azure cloud performance can be challenging.

Here are the most common challenges you might face while monitoring your Azure environment:

Fragmented visibility into Azure cloud infrastructure

Challenge:

Azure offers multiple cloud services to make CloudOps easier for organizations of all sizes. Each service comes with its own set of metrics, KPIs, logs and events, leading to fragmented visibility into the cloud as a whole. With a growing infrastructure and extensive service requirements, it becomes harder to identify performance anomalies and drill down to issues in real time. Administrators often tend to rely on multiple dashboards and cloud native tools for each service, which often challenges dependency mapping and causes critical blind spots.

Solution:

Applications Manager's real-time insights help you get a detailed view into each of your Azure services, including messaging queues and middleware. It provides a centralized view of the performance all your critical KPIs and maps dependencies among your cloud components and services with inbuilt AI. With the tool's smart anomaly detection and alerts, you can locate performance issues efficiently and ensure performance fixes before your operations get affected.

Numerous Azure cloud services to monitor

Challenge:

Azure offers a wide range of services, including App Services, Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and Databases, each requiring different monitoring techniques. Employing a monitoring interface for services of each kind increases the number of interfaces to look at, leaving the administrators to sift through multiple screens at once to fish out the cause for a single performance anomaly. This affects crucial user satisfaction metrics like MTTR and MTTD directly, taking a toll on overall cloud performance.

Solution:

Applications Manager's multi-service support allows you to monitor all Azure resources within one unified interface. With its centralized dashboards, you can integrate logs, metrics, and traffic among various services, gaining a comprehensive view into your Azure cloud performance and dependencies. This helps admin teams enhance cloud visibility and improve mean time to detect and fix anomalies before they lead to critical issues like downtime or high response time.

Dynamic size of the cloud

Challenge:

Including numerous VMs, containers, storage solutions, security services, and databases, Azure accommodates a huge lattice for organizations to make ITOps smoother. These components multiply with the growing user base and demand for services. Managing the performance of such a large and dynamic cloud infrastructure can be tedious and overwhelming, often causing operational errors and overlooked performance bottlenecks. If not managed properly, it could affect the overall cloud operations in the longer run.

Solution:

Scalability is key to ensuring efficient monitoring across any cloud size. Applications Manager can dynamically scale with the environment, ensuring that even the largest workloads remain fully observable. Its monitoring support extends from small, medium, and large scale enterprises. Its proactive cloud monitoring techniques and AI-based performance optimization aid you in maintaining efficiency as infrastructure grows.

Bulk transaction volumes

Challenge:

Azure bears a great load of data and undergoes millions of transactions every second, which create a huge amount of logs, events, transaction history, and analysis data. Studying such data manually and arriving at conclusions on cloud performance could be next to impossible for admins, without a capable cloud monitoring tool in hand. This causes delayed data analysis, responsive actions, and ultimately, cloud downtime.

Solution:

Applications Manager's advanced analysis helps you filter down critical metrics and identify potential anomalies. The tool's actionable insights and code-level visibility let you monitor transactions across your cloud apps and databases in real-time. Its comprehensive log analysis, automated alert escalation, and smart responsive actions help you focus on crucial issues and decisions than shuffling through multiple transaction traces and alarm decks to understand overall cloud performance.

Interdependent metrics among Azure cloud services

Challenge:

Multiple Azure cloud services come together as one to fulfill each transaction undergone in the cloud. This means a single anomaly en route can disrupt the workflow, cascade a slowdown across multiple components, and affect service reliability. With such interdependency, it becomes hard to follow up on performance anomalies, identify root causes, and fix issues in time.

Solution:

Applications Manager's advanced analytics and dependency mapping help you automate correlation between metrics, logs, and traces. Its elaborate root cause analysis helps you pinpoint performance anomalies, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR). With the tool's service maps, you can gain a clear understanding of how different Azure resources interact, ensuring faster troubleshooting and optimum cloud performance.

Complex hybrid and multi cloud infrastructure management

Challenge:

Most IT organizations rely on multi and hybrid cloud architectures, employing on-premise data centers or cloud services from multiple cloud vendors like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and many more, alongside Azure. Monitoring such diverse cloud environments gets challenging with multiple cloud native monitoring solutions, blurring the visibility into overall cloud performance and operations. This could cause potential vendor lock-in and make cloud monitoring experience tedious for admins.

Solution:

Applications Manager's hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring support helps you monitor all your cloud environments from a single console. Its cross-cloud observability, unified dashboards, and real-time insights ensure quick issue detection and resolution, irrespective of where they are originated at. Moreover, the tool's end-to-end visibility helps you ensure clear visibility into your cloud infrastructure and optimize the performance of your hybrid cloud.

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