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Types of cloud metrics

Types of metrics you can collect

CategoryAWSAzureGCP
ComputeEC2, LambdaVMs, FunctionsGCE, Cloud Functions
ContainersECS, EKSAKS, 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?

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What kinds of metrics can you collect? Pretty much everything.

Compute metrics from your EC2 instances, Azure VMs, GCE machines: CPU, memory, disk, network. Container metrics from EKS, AKS, GKE. Database metrics from RDS, Cosmos DB, Cloud SQL. Storage metrics from S3, Blob Storage, Cloud Storage. Load balancer and networking metrics showing traffic patterns and latency.

Each cloud provider exposes hundreds of metric types through their monitoring service, and Grafana can collect all of them. The specific metric names differ between providers, but the categories are remarkably similar.

Once you have these metrics in Grafana Cloud, you can answer questions like: what’s the CPU trend across all my compute instances? Which services are approaching capacity? How do my cloud costs correlate with traffic patterns?

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