Best Practices for Application Monitoring in Cloud Environments

Gone are the days when your apps ran on a single server you could physically touch. In today's cloud world, figuring out why something broke means navigating a maze of virtual resources that might not even exist five minutes from now. I've spent the last decade helping companies sort out their monitoring nightmares, and trust me – proper application monitoring can turn a team of frantic firefighters into calm problem-solvers. Let me share some real-world monitoring tricks that actually work when your infrastructure lives in the cloud.