CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ (CLO-002)Management and Technical OperationsMedium
A cloud engineer needs to track the operational status, performance metrics, and resource utilization of several new virtual machines deployed in a public cloud. The engineer also wants to receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for more than 5 minutes. Which cloud management function is primarily responsible for fulfilling these requirements?
- AProvisioning
- BAutomation
- CMonitoring
- DTagging
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: C. Monitoring
Monitoring tools collect data on resource performance and health, providing visibility into operational status and utilization. They also allow setting up alerts based on predefined thresholds, directly addressing the engineer's requirements.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Provisioning is about deploying resources, not tracking their performance or alerting.
- B. Automation can act on monitoring data but isn't the primary function for collecting and analyzing it.
- D. Tagging is for organizing and identifying resources, not for tracking their live performance or health.
Cloud Monitoring
The process of collecting and analyzing data on the performance, health, and utilization of cloud resources and applications.
- Provides visibility into cloud infrastructure and application behavior.
- Enables proactive identification and resolution of issues.
- Includes metrics, logs, traces, and alerting capabilities.
Memory trick: Provision makes, monitor watches, automate reacts, tag organizes batches.