Fred van den Bosch
The Future of Monitoring Data is In the Cloud
Scale and complexity call for leaving it to specialists
As applications move from onÂpremise to SaaS, the scale of deployments increases by orders of magnitude (to “webÂscale”). At the same time, application development and operation become tightly integrated and continuous deployment brings the frequency of updates down from months to days or even hours.
The larger scale makes the health of SaaS applications mission-critical and even existential to its providers, while the frequent updates increase the risk of failures. Therefore, monitoring and root cause analysis also become mission critical functions, and more instrumentation is needed to ensure the application’s quality of service. At the company I co-founded, we see customers using extensive and often tailored instrumentation that generates massive amounts of data (think hundreds of thousands of data streams and billions of data points per day).