SHARE The volume and velocity of data necessary for cloud monitoring can make the task a major challenge for any organization. Maintainers of tools such as Prometheus and OpenMetrics are working to make real-time monitoring as practical as possible, even as cloud operations scale. Real-time analytics is also becoming increasingly important, as analysis after the fact may yield insights that are no longer useful or relevant. “’If you just toss it into a data lake and do batch analysis like half a day later, no one cares about it anymore,” said Richard Hartmann (pictured), community director at Grafana Labs Inc. “It needs to be live … or at least the largest part of it needs to be live. You need to be able to alert right now if something’s imminently customer-facing.”