Self-Hosted Monitoring vs Cloud Monitoring

Developers should learn and use self-hosted monitoring when they need to maintain data sovereignty, comply with strict regulatory requirements (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.

Self-Hosted Monitoring

Nice Pick

Developers should learn and use self-hosted monitoring when they need to maintain data sovereignty, comply with strict regulatory requirements (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

Use Self-Hosted Monitoring if: You want g and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Cloud Monitoring if: You prioritize it is essential for devops and sre practices, enabling proactive incident response through automated alerts and dashboards over what Self-Hosted Monitoring offers.

The Bottom Line

Self-Hosted Monitoring wins

Developers should learn and use self-hosted monitoring when they need to maintain data sovereignty, comply with strict regulatory requirements (e