Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Tools for Application Performance

Hybrid cloud monitoring is the process involved in tracking application and web server metrics, performance, and operational workflow across both public and private clouds, and on-premises IT.

When a company runs applications and services on-premises as well as in private and public clouds, this creates a hybrid cloud environment. This model, which is becoming increasingly popular as more businesses and enterprises shift toward cloud-based computing, can amplify the benefits of both private and public clouds and allows for more seamless integration across technological barriers.

For instance, an enterprise can rely on the security of finely tuned, on-premises data centers while turning to the agility of cloud computing to manage the front end of an application—essentially optimizing resource allocation, saving costs, and improving overall productivity and performance in the process.

Hybrid cloud monitoring can help ensure your distributed applications are functional and secure, allowing your business to use these resources as needed. Businesses and organizations can’t afford delays in application response times, resource-straining workloads, or asset downtime.

Applications and services are inherently more distributed in hybrid cloud environments. When resources are distributed, it can be more difficult to keep track of their health and performance in a way that allows for fast response and easy troubleshooting.

Hybrid cloud performance monitoring can make it easier to track metrics and quickly see bottlenecks or failures in the transaction stack. Hybrid cloud performance monitoring can also consolidate performance metrics and troubleshooting data for assets across the hybrid environment into a single application, allowing you to more easily resolve problems and make decisions about resources based on empirical evidence.

Hybrid cloud monitoring tools automatically collect and display critical metrics to reveal application health. These tools provide admins and technology support staff with the ability to see and track metrics indicative of potential issues.

Hybrid cloud monitoring applications collect data from assets across the hybrid environment—from load balancers to servers to switches—into a single centralized application. They might monitor systems metrics like CPU and memory usage, disk space, and I/O, and server metrics like response time, number of requests, and network throughput.

By displaying current and historical metrics in dashboards and reports, cloud monitoring solutions can provide you with the data and information you need to allocate your resources properly and optimize application performance.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor offers hybrid cloud tools designed to track metrics for all your applications and infrastructure—including in a hybrid environment. SAM can help you ensure essential business services are accessible to end users and performing at optimal levels.

SAM’s AppStack dashboard is built to give contextual insights into how applications use resources and connect to other components within the hybrid environment. Integrated cross-stack data correlation also allows you to swiftly drill down to the root cause of issues, helping to reduce response time and more easily ensure systems are minimally affected.

With a clear dashboard and custom alerts, SAM can help you stay notified of possible bottlenecks or critically underperforming applications. SAM also offers in-depth reports for additional insights into hybrid cloud environments.