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Azure and AWS monitoring for your workloads
Azure and AWS can produce plenty of monitoring data. We help you choose the information that answers your operational questions, then connect it to alerts and an investigation route your team can use.
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Start with the workload, not every available metric
We look at the subscriptions or accounts, resources and regions you need covered, together with the people who own the workloads. Different services expose different information, and some checks need configuration inside the application or operating system.
The result should distinguish what is observed from what remains outside visibility. An Azure environment and an AWS environment do not have to use identical checks simply because both appear in the same monitoring discussion.
Collect information you can use in an investigation
Metrics can reveal a change in behaviour; logs may help explain it. Choose collection and retention around the questions you need to answer, the access required and the cost of keeping that information.
An alert becomes more useful when it points to the workload, relevant evidence and recent changes. Collecting everything without a plan can make that connection harder to find, not easier.
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Treat expected demand differently from an unexpected problem
A scheduled processing job may legitimately use substantial resources. The same activity at another time may deserve investigation. Rules need the workload owner’s context, not only a threshold chosen from a default template.
Provider health information is another part of the picture. It should sit alongside evidence from your configuration and application, rather than settle the cause of every interruption on its own.
Keep the operating arrangement and the bill understandable
We agree who receives alerts, when people investigate and how provider cases are raised. Automated collection does not establish staffed response hours or authority to make changes.
Collection, storage and retention can also create charges. Review those choices as the environment changes, and identify separately whether monitoring consumption or costs forms part of the work.
Cloud monitoring looks at wider business-service health. Cloud management covers agreed administration and changes. Clear connections between them make the data useful beyond the dashboard.
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Before you decide
Your questions, answered
Can we keep our existing Azure or AWS monitoring?
We can review what is already configured, which questions it answers and where it creates gaps or duplication. The design then identifies what stays and what needs adjustment. There is no reason to replace a useful check merely to start from an empty configuration.
Do both platforms have to be included?
No. The work can concern the Azure or AWS environment you need covered. Resources, account arrangements and available signals are reviewed for that environment. Where both are involved, the monitoring still needs to reflect each workload rather than impose identical checks without a practical reason.
Will collecting more logs improve the service?
Only when the information serves a useful purpose and can be accessed when needed. Retention, diagnostic value and collection costs all matter. We work through the evidence required for the agreed operational questions instead of assuming that the largest volume of stored data is the best result.
Who acts when an alert is raised?
The agreement needs to identify the investigation team, coverage hours and permissions, together with the route to your staff or the provider. An alert may call for a configuration change, more evidence or a supplier case. The monitoring setup alone does not promise that every one of those actions is included.
Your next step
What do you need your Azure or AWS monitoring to tell you?
Share the resources you run and the questions your current dashboards cannot answer. We will help you choose useful evidence, sensible alerts and an investigation route that fits the way your workloads operate.