Exoprise Provides Cloud Health Monitoring Service

Exoprise, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based monitoring and enablement offerings, has launched a new weekly newsletter that will provide readers with data gained from its CloudReady Monitor offering. The newsletter will provide performance and "health" data on mission-critical cloud applications of various cloud providers and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings.

The data being aggregated comes from Exoprise's global network of performance monitors, which are deployed at its users' endpoints. To kick things off, the newsletter will provide weekly performance data on Microsoft (MSFT) Azure and Office 365, Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) and Google (GOOG) Apps. But Exoprise has plans to expand its monitoring to include other services including Salesforce.com (CRM), Dropbox (BOX) and Workday (WDAY) over the next several months.

"Our customers all contribute to our crowd data and can access and compare that data against performance measurements at their own locations to quickly find and fix performance and availability issues affecting their cloud-based applications," said Patrick Carey, vice president of Product Management and Marketing at Exoprise, in a prepared statement. "This new report provides subscribers with a weekly snapshot of the health of the leading cloud services based on this same data. It's a great way for IT teams to track the real performance and availability trends of these services, from the perspective of users, rather than relying on the generic status reports typically shown in cloud service provider dashboards."

And it seems like a great way for the channel to keep tabs on the performance of its cloud partners, as well. Being able to provide metrics to customers based on data aggregated from thousands of users could prove to be useful in a sales pitch, but also in knowing which cloud services are not performing up to expectations.

If the big cloud providers are paying attention, it may also be a way for them to identify their shortcomings and work toward fixing them.