Cloud Monitoring API Usage
How Cloud Monitoring Works?
Cloud Monitoring involves collecting, analyzing, and visualizing performance metrics and telemetry data from cloud infrastructure and applications via APIs.
Cloud Monitoring data collection flow:
- API Authentication: Authenticate with cloud providers using secure credentials such as API keys, IAM roles, service principals, or OAuth tokens.
- Data Collection: Make scheduled API calls to retrieve resource states, performance metrics, and configuration information at defined intervals.
- Data Processing & Presentation: After data collection, data is normalized, processed, and stored for analysis, then visualized.
Types of APIs
- LIST APIs: Used to get the list of resources.
- GET / DESCRIBE API: Used to get the metadata or configuration data of the specific resource.
- Monitor APIs: Used to get the performance data for the resource. (ex: From AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, etc.).
Cloud Monitoring Comparison
| Native Monitoring (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) | Applications Manager |
Cloud Support | Single Cloud | Multi Cloud |
Threshold / Alarm Pricing | NA | |
API Pricing | NA | Cost incurred only for AWS CloudWatch GetMetricData API |
Detailed RCA & Customized Dashboard | Basic level | Advanced level |
Cloud API Pricing
AWS
For AWS monitoring, please find the API cost below
- CloudWatch
- GetMetricData: $0.01 per 1,000 metrics requested
- GET / DESCRIBE API: Free
Note: Please find the list of APIs used for monitoring here.Microsoft Azure
For Azure monitoring, please find the API cost below
- Platform Metrics - First 1M API calls/month free, then $0.01 per 1,000 calls.
- In Applications Manager, we use Metrics - List API to fetch Azure monitors metrics.
Note: Please find the list of APIs used for monitoring here.
Cost Calculation
AWS Pricing (Example)
Please find the calculation for the API cost incurred in AWS monitors for the default poll interval - 5 mins.
Monitor Type | Metrics count / poll | Metrics count / hour (12 polls) | Metrics count / month (12 polls * 24 * 30) | Monthly cost per monitor | Metrics count for 10 monitors | Monthly cost for 10 monitors |
SQS | 6 | 72 | 51,840 | $0.51 | 518,400 | $5.18 |
API Gateway (REST) | 7 | 84 | 60,480 | $0.60 | 604,800 | $6.04 |
File Transfer Family | 11 | 132 | 95,040 | $0.95 | 950,400 | $9.50 |
Microsoft Azure (Example)
Please find the calculation for the API cost incurred in Azure monitors for the default poll interval - 5 mins.
| Monitor Type | Metrics / Poll | Metrics / Hour (12 polls) | Metrics / Month (12 × 24 × 30) | 10 Monitors Total Metrics | Monthly Cost per Monitor (Free Tier) | Monthly Cost per Monitor (No Free Tier) | Monthly Cost for 10 Monitors (With Free Tier) | Monthly Cost for 10 Monitors (No Free Tier) |
| Express Route | 15 | 180 | 129,600 | 1,296,000 | $0 | $1.296 | $2.96 | $12.96 |
| ARM Service Bus | 17 | 204 | 146,880 | 1,468,800 | $0 | $1.4688 | $4.688 | $14.688 |
Cost Optimization Recommendations
- Reduce API Call Frequency:
- Increase the poll interval of the non-critical monitors (UAT) to reduce the API call frequency (For ex: increase the poll interval from 5 mins to 15 mins).
- Prioritize Critical Resources:
- Leverage advanced discovery filters in Applications Manager to target essential resources.
- Utilize regex-based filtering, choose required services & regions, etc.
- Use stop discovery to halt further discovery once sufficient resource required for monitoring have been discovered.
Cloud Monitoring Architecture
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