Cloud Visibility – First step to your Cloud cost journey
Visibility is often cited as a critical or the first step for any cloud cost journey. But what exactly does everyone mean by visibility, and why is it so important?
As organizations move to the cloud, they turn to cloud providers like Amazon Web services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, VMware, and Google Cloud platforms to keep track of the sheer volumes of resources involved in their cloud infrastructure.
Here’s the rub – What you see is what you control! Different cloud providers offer cloud-specific visibility tools, resulting in disparate views of cloud resources. Especially, In a hybrid or multi-cloud setup, you risk losing control of your system. That’s a loss of cloud visibility.
Imagine driving an expensive car without even knowing its mileage. Or handing over an ‘all-you-can-buy’ pass to your family during the festive season. The only words that come to mind are ‘unpredictable’ and ‘expensive.’
Cloud visibility revolves around tracking and maintaining control over your cloud infrastructure while a third party hosts it. Without total visibility, your cloud environments can spiral out of control and become cost centers rather than enablers of growth and scalability.
It is true that monitoring cloud resources can sometimes feel like chewing rocks. Why? Because their architecture can change more quickly than the weather outside. Being dynamic in nature, new workloads can be deployed in a jiffy, giving rise to blind spots. And under dangerous circumstances, these spots can grow into the likes of data breaches, compliance nightmares, and cringing customers.
But does this necessarily mean that your cloud journey will end before it sees the light of day? Not if you aim to achieve holistic cloud visibility for your cloud infrastructure. Here is the usual workflow that focuses on cloud visibility.
- Integrating all apps, services, and cloud infrastructure
Freshservice lets you integrate with leading cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and VMware. This gives holistic visibility of cloud resources in a single pane of glass by auto-discovering them into the Freshservice asset inventory.
2. Application transactions tracked throughout the lifecycle
With cloud discovery and service health monitoring, monitor business and technical services by mapping the assets powering a service. This helps you to track the value delivered to your end user rather than the status of individual alerts or tickets.
3. Visualize your Cloud infra dependency
Remediate issues faster with cloud infra dependencies captured automatically right within your service management solution. Curb resource sprawl and prevent overspending by tracking cloud relationships between themselves and other CIs.
4. A simple and intuitive cloud dashboard
Healthy cloud infrastructure and applications depend on good observability! One of the key elements of using information effectively is creating dashboards that include relevant metrics. This helps to analyze data and make quick decisions to reduce costs and optimize resource consumption.
All this and more adds wings to the cloud ecosystem, setting it up for its next phase. And with a pumped-up architecture on steroids, many benefits can be drawn by putting those demons to rest:
- Optimize cloud spending and avoid unexpected costs.
- Streamlined IT operations with visibility into cloud services.
- Better resource utilization by Identifying unused cloud resources.
- Increased agility, allowing for more rapid adoption and deployment of new technology.
- Proactive problem-solving by resolving issues before they become major problems.
With all this on the table, what should be the traits of an ideal cloud management solution? To begin with, it should be witty enough to sniff an incoming cost mountain, just like Spider-Man’s tingling senses. This includes diagnosing the type of issue and notifying users with relevant metrics.
In the end, it all ties up with the business value that your cloud partner provides. At Freshservice, we function as a one-stop solution for all your cloud needs so that you don’t have to hop from one digital store to another.
Whether it is about Cloud Management, Service Automation, or ITOM Orchestration, we have something in store for every cloud need, especially when it comes to having a transparent window-pane view of your cloud resources.
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