Measuring Your Deployment Against the Baseline
To determine whether your cloud services, whether they be servers, storage, security, databases, load balancers, or any of the other many cloud services offered, are performing as expected, you must know what normal is. Let’s start this chapter by setting up your baselines so you can know what is considered to be normal operations and what is out of your expectations.
By following widely recognized best practices for performance measurements, you can fine-tune your cloud operations to achieve the performance levels you require to operate your business.
Object Tracking for Baseline Validation
When deploying and operating your fleet of cloud servers and services, you will, from time to time, encounter performance issues. By identifying and tracking various monitored statistics from manageable objects, you collect statistical data over a period of time. This data will then be used to construct a view of what is considered normal operations...
