Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Observability revolves essentially around understanding infrastructure health. This means that operations teams monitor applications, netwo0rks, database and cloud environments using familiar signals. They use logs, metrics, latency, uptime measurements, and traces. If systems remain available and the performance stays within expected thresholds, the teams have enough visibility to understand whether applications are functioning properly.

Multi-cloud management becomes difficult in a very specific way. The problem is usually not that an organization uses more than one cloud. The real problem is that architecture, governance, cost control, provisioning standards, and team workflows start evolving at different speeds. One team is optimizing delivery. Another is trying to lock down policy. A third is dealing with private infrastructure that still matters. A fourth is trying to make cloud spending predictable.