Multicloud Observability: Single Pane of Glass for AWS and Azure

In modern cloud environments, observability is essential for keeping applications reliable, performant, and cost-effective, especially when workloads span multiple platforms. This hands-on lab guides you through building a unified, practical monitoring view across AWS and Azure so you can quickly detect issues, and make informed decisions without switching tools.

You will set up OS-level metrics, connect them to Azure Monitor and Amazon CloudWatch, and visualize the results in Grafana as a single pane of glass. The lab focuses on actionable configurations and patterns you can reuse in real environments, highlighting trade-offs, common pitfalls, and how to scale your approach as your multicloud footprint grows.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will be able to:

• Configure OS-level monitoring for virtual machines in both AWS and Azure
• Visualize metrics from both AWS and Azure in a single Grafana dashboard
• Describe alternative approaches to multicloud monitoring

Intended audience

• Cloud Architects
• Multicloud practitioners
• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following is beneficial but is not required to complete the lab:

• Amazon CloudWatch basics
• Azure Monitor basics

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

• An Overview of Amazon CloudWatch
• Configuring Azure Monitor Metrics, Logs, and Alerts