Application monitoring tools put Google Cloud under the microscope

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Dan Sullivan.

Application monitoring tools give cloud admins insight into application performance and other crucial issues. These tools help admins understand complex distributed systems, which can often behave in unexpected ways. As more developers move from programming for single servers to writing distributed applications, they will come to depend on monitoring tools.

Most cloud providers, as well as third parties, offer deployment management and monitoring tools. Google is expanding the range of services and tools that are available to developers and system administrators with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace and Cloud Debugger. Google’s Cloud Monitoring tool is generally available today, and Cloud Trace and Cloud Debugger are in private beta release…


Keeping tabs on your apps with Cloud Monitoring.

Cloud Monitoring is designed for finding performance problems in applications. The tool works with Google Cloud and popular application stack components, including open source Web servers, relational and NoSQL databases, and the ElasticSearch search engine…

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