On-Premises Monitoring vs Cloud Monitoring

Developers and IT teams should use on-premises monitoring when handling sensitive data subject to strict regulatory compliance (e meets developers should learn cloud monitoring when building or maintaining cloud-native applications to ensure system reliability, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and meet service-level objectives (slos). Here's our take.

On-Premises Monitoring

Nice Pick

Developers and IT teams should use on-premises monitoring when handling sensitive data subject to strict regulatory compliance (e

Pros

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• Related to: prometheus, grafana

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Cloud Monitoring

Developers should learn Cloud Monitoring when building or maintaining cloud-native applications to ensure system reliability, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and meet service-level objectives (SLOs)

Pros

• It is essential for DevOps and SRE practices, enabling proactive incident response through automated alerts and dashboards
• Related to: devops, site-reliability-engineering

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. On-Premises Monitoring is a methodology while Cloud Monitoring is a tool. We picked On-Premises Monitoring based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

On-Premises Monitoring wins

Based on overall popularity. On-Premises Monitoring is more widely used, but Cloud Monitoring excels in its own space.