The ongoing adoption and consumption of cloud services presents unique performance monitoring challenges for
IT departments. Whether organizations are automating the provisioning of virtual machines, networks and storage
in a private cloud, migrating enterprise applications to a public cloud, or leveraging the growing set of Software,
Platform, or Infrastructure as a Service models, they need performance monitoring platforms that support the
journey to the cloud.

Private clouds afford direct access to monitoring compute, network and storage elements. However, with Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS), IT departments lose direct control of – and visibility over – the assets comprising the services. So, how do they monitor the performance of
these services?