Cloud Security
Cloud Monitoring
Logging, alerting and visibility across cloud services.
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- 47 minutes of reading
- Observability in the cloud: logs, metrics and tracesWhat observability means, how logs, metrics and traces differ and fit together, why cloud and microservice systems need them, and how OpenTelemetry standardises collection. 7 min · Beginner
- A cloud logging strategy: what to log, central storage, retention and protectionHow to plan logging in the cloud: which sources matter most, how to centralise logs in a protected account, how long to keep them, and how to stop attackers and mistakes from deleting or altering them. 8 min · Intermediate
- Cloud security posture management: finding misconfigurations continuouslyWhat cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools do, the misconfigurations they find, how they relate to CNAPP, and how to turn findings into lasting fixes with prioritisation and guardrails. 8 min · Intermediate
- Cloud alerting and on-call: thresholds, noise reduction and runbooksHow to design cloud alerts that people trust: choosing thresholds, alerting on symptoms and SLOs, cutting noise, routing by severity, writing runbooks and running a sustainable on-call rota. 8 min · Intermediate
- Monitoring cost and performance together: dashboards, anomalies and budgetsWhy cloud cost and performance should be watched side by side, which metrics to combine on dashboards, how budgets and cost anomaly detection work, and how unexpected spend can reveal security problems. 7 min · Beginner
- Incident response and forensics in the cloud: snapshots, isolation, logs and provider supportHow incident response changes in the cloud: preparing accounts and logs in advance, containing compromised identities and workloads, preserving evidence with snapshots, investigating with audit logs and working with your provider. 9 min · Advanced