Cloud infrastructure monitoring software helps businesses maintain the health, availability, and efficiency of their cloud environments. These tools continuously collect and analyze metrics from virtual machines, containers, storage, databases, and network components across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Typically used by IT operations teams, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects, these tools help organizations proactively identify issues in their cloud infrastructure, track performance and resource usage in real time, and optimize infrastructure costs and security.
Core capabilities include customizable dashboards and visualizations, anomaly detection and alerts, and integration with other monitoring and cloud management tools. These features enable teams to maintain high availability and performance while managing the complexity of modern cloud deployments.
Unlike application performance monitoring (APM) tools that focus on application-level performance and user experience, or observability software that provides deep system insights through logs, metrics, and traces, cloud infrastructure monitoring focuses solely on the infrastructure layer. It ensures that foundational cloud resources operate optimally, which is critical for maintaining reliable and cost-effective cloud services.
To qualify for inclusion in the Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring category, a product must:
Continuously monitor the performance and health of cloud infrastructure components (e.g., compute instances, containers, storage, databases, and networks)
Provide visualization tools such as dashboards, topology maps, or infrastructure diagrams
Detect and alert on abnormal behavior or potential infrastructure failures
Provide actionable insights or recommendations for optimizing infrastructure performance and costs
