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Section 2 · Cloud metrics

What cloud metrics you can collect from AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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Types of metrics you can collect

Each cloud provider exposes its metrics through its own monitoring service, and Grafana can collect them. The metric names differ between providers, but the categories are the same. The services below are examples, not a complete list.

CategoryAWSAzureGCP
ComputeEC2, LambdaVMs, FunctionsGCE, Cloud Functions
ContainersECSAKS, ACIGKE, Cloud Run
DatabasesRDS, DynamoDBAzure SQL, Cosmos DBCloud SQL, Spanner
StorageS3, EBSBlob, DisksCloud Storage
NetworkingELB, CloudFrontLoad Balancer, CDNCloud Load Balancing

Questions you can answer

With cloud metrics in Grafana, you can answer questions like:

  • What’s the CPU utilization trend across all my compute instances?
  • Which services are approaching capacity limits?
  • How do costs correlate with traffic patterns?
  • What’s the p99 latency on my load balancers?