Multi Cloud Monitoring

Unified observability platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP — centralised dashboards, cross-cloud alerting, distributed tracing, log aggregation, and performance monitoring for multi-cloud environments.

Why Businesses Need This Service

Multi-cloud environments generate siloed observability data — CloudWatch in AWS, Azure Monitor in Azure, Cloud Monitoring in GCP. Teams switch between consoles, miss cross-cloud performance correlations, and lose critical context during incidents. Unified multi-cloud monitoring eliminates these silos with a single pane of glass, consistent alerting, and the distributed tracing needed to diagnose incidents that span cloud boundaries.

Key Capabilities

Comprehensive capabilities to address your cloud needs

Unified observability platform deployment (Datadog, Grafana, New Relic) across all cloud providers

Cross-cloud centralised logging with ELK Stack or cloud-native log aggregation

Distributed tracing implementation with OpenTelemetry across multi-cloud services

Intelligent alerting with cross-cloud correlation rules and noise reduction

Infrastructure-as-Code monitoring: Terraform-provisioned dashboards and alert policies

SLO/SLI framework design and error budget tracking across cloud environments

Technologies & Platforms

Industry-leading tools and platforms we use to deliver exceptional results

Technologies

DatadogGrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetryELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)New RelicPagerDutyVictorOps

Platforms

AWS CloudWatchAzure MonitorGCP Cloud MonitoringKubernetesMulti-cloud

Business Outcomes

Measurable results that drive business value

Single pane of glass for all cloud environments — no console switching during incidents

Mean time to detect (MTTD) reduced by 60–80% with intelligent cross-cloud alerting

Mean time to resolve (MTTR) reduced by 40–60% with correlated observability data

Proactive capacity alerts prevent performance degradation before it impacts customers

SLO tracking with automated error budget burn-rate alerts

Common Use Cases

Real-world scenarios where this cloud service delivers value

Unified monitoring platform for multi-cloud enterprise environments

Cross-cloud incident detection and correlation with automated alert routing

Distributed tracing for microservices spanning AWS and Azure

Centralised log management for compliance and security analytics

SLO/SLI framework implementation for reliability engineering

Kubernetes multi-cluster observability across EKS, AKS, and GKE

Typical Architecture

Key components and layers in a typical cloud architecture

Metrics Aggregation Layer

Centralised Log Store

Distributed Trace Collector

Alert Manager

Unified Dashboard Layer

On-call & Incident Management

Our Implementation Process

A systematic approach that ensures timely delivery and exceeds expectations

Step 1

Observability Assessment

Audit current monitoring coverage across all clouds, identify blind spots, assess alerting quality (noise vs. signal), and map the monitoring gaps causing MTTD/MTTR issues.

Step 2

Platform Design

Select the right observability platform for your environment, design the metrics hierarchy, log schema, and tracing instrumentation strategy across services.

Step 3

Instrumentation

Deploy monitoring agents and collectors across all cloud environments, implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation in applications, and establish consistent metric and log naming conventions.

Step 4

Dashboard & Alerting

Build unified dashboards covering all cloud infrastructure and application performance, design intelligent alert policies with proper thresholds and routing to reduce noise.

Step 5

SLO Implementation

Define SLIs and SLOs for critical services, implement error budget tracking, set burn-rate alerts, and establish the on-call processes to act on reliability data.

Industries We Serve

Our cloud services deliver value across diverse industries

SaaS Platforms

Fintech

Healthcare

Ecommerce

Media

AI / Data Platforms

Cloud Platforms & Tools

Industry-leading platforms and tools we leverage to deliver exceptional results

Technologies

DatadogGrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetryELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)New RelicPagerDutyVictorOps

Platforms

AWS CloudWatchAzure MonitorGCP Cloud MonitoringKubernetesMulti-cloud

Example Success Story

See how we've helped businesses achieve success with cloud solutions

Client Challenge

A SaaS platform running across AWS (primary) and Azure (DR) had no unified monitoring. Teams used CloudWatch and Azure Monitor separately. Cross-cloud incidents took 45+ minutes to diagnose because engineers lacked context about which cloud was the failure source.

Cloud Solution Implemented

We deployed Datadog as the unified observability platform, integrated all AWS and Azure services, implemented distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry across 35 microservices, designed correlated dashboards, and established SLOs with error budget tracking for 12 critical user journeys.

Business Results

MTTD reduced from 45 minutes to 8 minutes

MTTR reduced from 3.2 hours to 52 minutes

Alert noise reduced by 73% with correlation rules

100% trace coverage across all services

12 critical SLOs defined and tracked with error budgets

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Multi Cloud Monitoring

Multi-cloud monitoring provides unified observability across multiple cloud providers — typically AWS, Azure, and GCP. It consolidates metrics, logs, and traces from all environments into a single platform, enabling consistent alerting, faster incident response, and cross-cloud performance analysis.

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