William Vambenepe explains his frustration with PaaS Cloud infrastructure — “can you handle the truth?”

…the instance monitoring console Google just rolled out is seriously lacking. As is too often the case with IT monitoring systems, it reports what is convenient to collect, not what is useful. I’m sure they’ll fix it over time. What this console does well (and really the main point of this blog) is illustrate the challenge of how much information about the underlying infrastructure should be surfaced.

Hard not to notice that his vent includes the phrase “as is too often the case with IT monitoring systems”, which indicates he is getting annoyed by something not specifically a cloud issue. Consoles and dashboards are rarely up to snuff, so you would expect this to be the same no matter what you call your IT environment. Then again, everything in the cloud is a cloud issue. The problem becomes you ONLY get a dashboard in the cloud, nothing more. Options are limited when you do not get to decide what they will be, just accept them as they are delivered to you.