Summary
This chapter focused on managing your cloud operations by establishing effective baselines, measuring performance, and understanding the importance of SLAs.
Baselines are created to establish what reporting is considered to be normal operations. By measuring critical components and utilization, data sets can be created and measured over time to determine how your cloud components are being used. With a well-established baseline, variations can be highlighted and used for identifying problems, the need to add capacity, if SLAs are being honored, and usage trends.
Baselines are a collection of metrics that are gathered from cloud objects such as CPU, RAM, storage, network, and any other service or component you deem important to measure. Baselines are a point-in-time view of operations and need to be constantly tracked as part of your ongoing operations. Baseline data allows you to analyze how your operations are performing, plan for growth, and generate reports for regularity or...
