What it means
It goes beyond collecting telemetry by connecting signals to service objectives, dependencies, identities, changes, and user impact.
Why it matters
Distributed cloud systems can fail in partial and unfamiliar ways. Without correlated evidence, teams may see symptoms but not causes or attacker activity.
Practical focus
- Collect telemetry from applications, platforms, identity, and networks
- Standardize time, context, and correlation identifiers
- Design alerts around actionable conditions and service impact
Common mistakes
- Collecting everything without retention or use cases
- Monitoring infrastructure while ignoring managed services
- Treating alert volume as evidence of coverage
Certification relevance
This subject appears in or supports the following certification bodies of knowledge: