Cloud Metrics
To effectively operate, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your cloud operations, it is critical to gather cloud metrics and operational measurements in real time. Cloud metrics include many different types of measurement information that can be collected from the many services and devices operating in the cloud. The definition of the term cloud metric is not all that specific, and even the standards bodies do not offer much help in defining what a cloud metric really means. However, a metric is a standard of measurement that defines the conditions and the rules for performing a measurement and for understanding the results of the measurement.
To better understand cloud metrics, Table 7.1 lists examples of the different objects that can be recorded and logged as part of your cloud management operations; these are just a small sample of the hundreds or even thousands of objects that are available for measurement.
TABLE 7.1 Cloud metric examples
| Metric | Description |
