Cloud Observability: AI-Enhanced Monitoring for Proactive Incident Management - 2025
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https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9246.IJETCSIT-V6I1P109Keywords:
Cloud Observability, AI-Enhanced Monitoring, Proactive Incident Management, Cloud Monitoring, Predictive Analytics, Incident Detection, AI in Cloud InfrastructureAbstract
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations deploy, manage, and scale their infrastructure. But the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the cloud environment poses a great challenge to how to maintain the reliability availability and performance of the system. Conventional monitoring systems gazed at the information and responses based on the certain limits, while the idea was to capture the problems after they impacted the services. Cloud architectures have evolved drastically since then, and this method has started to fall short, as it demands real time visibility and proactive management to address service interruptions and optimize operational efficiency. Cloud observability is one of the key concepts that has come into play to overcome the limitations of conventional log analysis, as it allows for a data-driven, thorough approach to monitoring by generating meaningful insights from the data. It has to extend the meaning of observability to various components of the infrastructure: observability in cloud is much more than just monitoring cloud. It helps organizations obtain better visibility into the internal behaviour of their systems, giving them the visibility they need to proactively forecast, identify and remediate issues before they reach end users. Observability frameworks provide organizations with a better understanding of the performance and health of the system, allowing them to take corrective actions before an issue turns into a major disruption.
Observability is a key step towards improved incident management, but as cloud systems become more complex and larger, organizations are realizing that they need to integrate advanced technologies, AI for instance, into their incident management efforts in order to ensure incident response processes are as efficient and as effective as possible. AI-powered monitoring systems utilize machine learning (ML) and other AI methods to automate anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and incident response. They are able to sift through massive amounts of real-time telemetry data, identify underlying trends, and forecast events before they occur. AI-driven observability systems, in contrast to traditional systems which depend on human resource intervention, can automatically scale resources, remediate performance issues, and trace issues to their source with limited hands-on interaction. By anticipating issues before they occur, organizations can avoid service disruptions, enhance the user experience, and decrease operational expenditures associated with incident response.”
AI can also be transforming when it comes to predictive analytics, with the power to foresee possible incidents before they happen. Using ML algorithms based on historical data, the machine learns to analyse the trends and patterns in datasets that lead to failures so that organizations can take preventive action to mitigate these failures. This ability aids greatly in cloud ecosystems, where quick scaling and resource management support high performance during traffic surges, system failure, or other events. Basically, more correlation of data from multiple sources helps organizations identify the exact underlying causes of problems by providing information about the same in the form of root cause analysis
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