{"id":2555,"date":"2025-04-29T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/35x.de\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:45:03","slug":"monitoring-blind-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/35x.de\/en\/cloud-basics\/monitoring-blind-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring in the cloud: visibility instead of flying blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2555\" class=\"elementor elementor-2555\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2708dfa e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2708dfa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c6f2be elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7c6f2be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monitoring in the cloud: visibility instead of flying blind<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f7ad9d e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5f7ad9d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81b4ae8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"81b4ae8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Imagine you are piloting a state-of-the-art aircraft - fast, flexible, powerful. But your instruments are out of order. No displays, no warnings, no control. This is exactly what cloud operation without monitoring feels like. Modern cloud architectures offer enormous possibilities - but also enormous complexity. And only what is visible can be improved.<\/p><p>Without the necessary transparency, performance problems, security risks and optimization potential remain hidden. Monitoring is your digital cockpit: it gives you an overview, detects anomalies at an early stage and shows you where you need to focus to get the best out of your cloud environment. If you really want to take advantage of the cloud, you need visibility - and that's exactly what monitoring is indispensable for.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c6f0a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8c6f0a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1011\" src=\"https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-1024x1011.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2557\" alt=\"Cloud monitoring\" srcset=\"https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be5d7fc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"be5d7fc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d53408 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7d53408\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8c4764 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d8c4764\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Why monitoring in the cloud is not a nice-to-have<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2acccbb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2acccbb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In the dynamic and complex world of the cloud <a href=\"https:\/\/35x.de\/en\/services\/cloud-management\/cloud-monitoring\/\">Monitoring<\/a> not an optional extra, but a duty. This is the only way to really understand and control operations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dynamics<\/strong>Cloud environments are constantly changing. Instances are automatically scaled, services updated, workloads moved. Without monitoring, you quickly lose track.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distributed systems<\/strong>Modern applications often consist of microservices, databases, API gateways and external services. Monitoring makes the interactions between these components visible and helps to quickly isolate sources of error.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customer expectations<\/strong>Users today expect high availability and fast response times. Monitoring enables proactive action - before a technical problem results in a support ticket or poor user experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d2634ee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d2634ee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-034ad17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"034ad17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monitoring as test-driven development for the cloud<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d576ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d576ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We even go so far as to say that good cloud monitoring is a kind of \"test-driven development\" at infrastructure level.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Thought through from the start<\/strong>Monitoring should be considered in the planning phase and implemented from day 1 - not just when the first problem occurs.<\/li><li><strong>Proactive error detection<\/strong>By defining clear metrics and thresholds, problems can be identified before they develop into failures.<\/li><li><strong>Continuous optimization<\/strong>Monitoring provides continuous data that can be used to further develop architecture, performance and efficiency on the basis of data.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf7a554 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cf7a554\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca64426 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ca64426\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The golden rules of cloud monitoring<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38be1ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"38be1ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>An effective monitoring setup is based on three central pillars:<\/p><p><strong>Health Checks<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li>The simplest form of availability check: A regular HTTP request to a defined endpoint or service.<\/li><li>Fast, automated and ideal for the first signs of problems.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Metrics<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li>They provide quantitative data on the status and performance of your systems - such as CPU utilization, memory consumption or latency times.<\/li><li>The more granular and context-related the metrics, the more precisely you can analyze causes.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><strong>KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li>These business-relevant metrics show the direct influence of IT on business success - e.g. conversion rates, average loading times or error rates.<\/li><li>They make technical measures measurable in a business context.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af9a5ea e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"af9a5ea\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e995ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4e995ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monitoring as code: Automated and integrated<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3739fdf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3739fdf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For truly scalable monitoring, it must be treated as code and automatically integrated into existing processes:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Infrastructure as Code (IaC)<\/strong><ul><li>Many monitoring solutions - such as Prometheus, Datadog or Grafana - can be provisioned via Terraform or other IaC tools.<\/li><li>Native services such as AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Google Cloud Operations can also be automatically defined as part of the infrastructure.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>System Configuration Management (ScM)<\/strong><ul><li>With self-hosted solutions, configuration via tools such as Ansible or Puppet ensures uniform setups, agent installations and scalable rollouts.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d543aa2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d543aa2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6055616 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6055616\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The advantages of monitoring as code<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4891848 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4891848\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><strong>Consistency<\/strong>Configurations are versionable, verifiable and reproducible.<\/li><li><strong>Automation<\/strong>Changes to the monitoring setup are distributed automatically - including dashboards, thresholds and notifications.<\/li><li><strong>Scalability<\/strong>New environments or services integrate seamlessly into existing monitoring - without manual rework.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8ab477 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d8ab477\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e70d2ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e70d2ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monitoring is the lifeline of the cloud<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed81858 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ed81858\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Monitoring is much more than a diagnostic tool - 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It creates the visibility that is necessary for stable, high-performance and economically successful cloud systems.<\/p><p>Whether health check or business KPI, whether Prometheus or CloudWatch: monitoring helps you not only to react, but also to control. It makes your infrastructure traceable, your applications transparent and your processes measurable.<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Only those who see their cloud can really understand it - and make it better.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring in der Cloud: Sichtbarkeit statt Blindflug Stell dir vor, du steuerst ein hochmodernes Flugzeug \u2013 schnell, flexibel, leistungsstark. Aber deine Instrumente sind ausgefallen. Keine Anzeigen, keine Warnungen, keine Kontrolle. Genau so f\u00fchlt sich Cloud-Betrieb ohne Monitoring an. Moderne Cloud-Architekturen bieten enorme M\u00f6glichkeiten \u2013 aber auch enorme Komplexit\u00e4t. Und nur was sichtbar ist, l\u00e4sst sich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8,17,7,16],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-basics","tag-blog-post","tag-cloud-journey","tag-cloud-migration","tag-cloud-reise"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring.jpg",1181,1166,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-300x296.jpg",300,296,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-768x758.jpg",768,758,true],"large":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-1024x1011.jpg",1024,1011,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring.jpg",1181,1166,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring.jpg",1181,1166,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/35x.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cloud-monitoring-12x12.jpg",12,12,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Susanne Lau","author_link":"https:\/\/35x.de\/en\/author\/sl\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Monitoring in der Cloud: Sichtbarkeit statt Blindflug Stell dir vor, du steuerst ein hochmodernes Flugzeug \u2013 schnell, flexibel, leistungsstark. 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