Cloud-Native Monitoring (CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Azure Monitor)

Summary

Each major cloud provider offers a built-in monitoring service that collects metrics and logs from your resources automatically — the default starting point before reaching for third-party observability tools.

• 1Explore your cloud provider's native monitoring console for a resource you've deployed.
• 2Set up a basic metric alarm using the native monitoring service.
• 3Learn what's collected automatically versus what requires explicit instrumentation.