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Is monitoring in the cloud special enough to warrant a list of tips and best practices? We think so. On the one hand, monitoring in the cloud might seem easy since there is a large number of solutions to choose from. On the other hand, though, the dynamic and distributed nature of the cloud can make the process much more challenging. In this article, we’ll cover ten tips and best practices that will help you ace your cloud monitoring game.

We’ve built a lot of amazing things into the open-source Netdata monitoring system. But, no matter how far we’ve come, we’ll always be proud of how little RAM it uses. Right now, Netdata stores metrics in your system’s RAM using a ridiculously efficient database. It only saves or loads historical metrics from disk when you restart it. With this system, Netdata can be both low-resource and exhaustive in its collection of real-time metrics.