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Cloud migration monitoring: secure and objectify your performance

Measure real user experience to guarantee a successful transition. Anticipate risks, compare before/after performance, and ensure SLA compliance with your cloud providers.

Before/After Benchmark SLA Enforcement Multi-Cloud Monitoring AWS, Azure, GCP
Before Establish a performance baseline
During Detect real-time regressions
After Validate SLA target achievement

Digital Experience Monitoring

Make end-user experience the #1 indicator of your Cloud project's success.

Performance gap

Is your application running faster?

Availability rate

Is the service fully accessible post-migration?

SLA compliance

Is your cloud provider delivering?

Challenges & Risks

Why is digital experience monitoring essential for your cloud migration?

Migrating all or part of your applications to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a critical step. However, this transition—whether a "Lift & Shift" or a complete refactoring—carries major risks if executed blindly.

The problem: migrating without frontend visibility

Changing infrastructure fundamentally alters how your application is delivered. Without user-centric cloud migration monitoring, IT teams expose themselves to:

  • An inability to prove the new system performs as efficiently as the old one.
  • Unexpected slowdowns caused by network latency or new DNS routing.
  • A lack of objective data to challenge your cloud provider's availability reports.

The solution: a Digital Experience (DEM) approach

Ekara empowers you with a proactive stance. By measuring response times from outside your datacenter (via synthetic monitoring robots or RUM), you gain an objective view of what your users actually experience.

This continuous monitoring acts as a trusted third party, providing you with irrefutable data to confidently steer the migration of your critical applications to the Cloud.

The 4 pillars of a successful Move to Cloud

Guarantee user experience

Ensure moving to the cloud does not negatively impact the speed or availability of your business applications.

Prioritise issues

Instantly identify critical regressions during the technical cutover to focus your remediation efforts effectively.

Facilitate communication

Leverage neutral metrics (XLAs) to streamline discussions between IT teams, business units, and cloud providers.

Secure the transition

Reduce the uncertainty associated with architecture changes by validating end-to-end critical user journeys.

Ready to structure your cloud migration project with reliable data?

Discover our method (Before / During / After)

The Ekara Method

Secure every stage with proactive cloud migration monitoring

A proven methodology to measure, compare, and validate your end-user experience throughout your entire transition project (Before, During, After).

BEFORE: Establish the baseline

Before moving a single server, Ekara measures the current performance of your applications on your legacy infrastructure (On-Premise). This "Baseline" becomes your irrefutable reference point to judge the future success of the migration.

DURING: Detect regressions in real time

During the cutover phase (DNS routing, data transfers, parallel runs), Ekara’s robots monitor critical user journeys. If there is abnormal latency or downtime related to the new cloud architecture, your teams are alerted instantly.

AFTER: Validate SLA target achievement

The migration is complete. Ekara automatically compares the new performance metrics (Cloud) against the baseline (On-Premise). You can easily prove to stakeholders and users that availability and response times meet (or exceed) expectations.

CONTINUOUS: Optimise and control the provider

Monitoring doesn't stop at Go-Live. Ekara maintains continuous 24/7 surveillance to ensure your Cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) sustainably meets their Service Level Agreements (SLAs) through objective, third-party reporting.

Key indicators for your migration

Performance gap (Delta)

Direct comparison of response times before and after the cloud transition.

Global availability

The percentage of time the service is fully accessible to end users without interruption.

Step-by-step response time

Time required to execute specific business actions (e.g., login, checkout, search).

Functional error rate

Detection of journey failures (Timeouts, 500 errors, or unreachable APIs post-migration).

Quality of Experience (Apdex)

A standard industry index measuring overall user satisfaction levels.

Geographic variance

The impact of the new cloud datacenter location on latency across different regions.

Cloud Strategies & Environments

A cloud migration monitoring solution tailored to your strategy

Lift & Shift, cloud-native refactoring, or moving to SaaS: whatever your target architecture, Ekara objectifies your performance to guarantee the ROI of your transformation.

Lift & Shift (IaaS)
Infrastructure

Rehosting (IaaS)

AWS EC2, Azure VM, GCP Compute

You move your existing applications to cloud-based virtual machines without changing the code. Monitoring ensures the new network routing and server infrastructure do not introduce invisible data center latencies.

Primary risk Network latency (WAN)
Monitoring focus Response time delta
Cloud-Native Refactoring
Application

Replatforming (PaaS)

Microservices, Kubernetes, Serverless

You modernize the application architecture to fully leverage native cloud services. Ekara validates that this new backend complexity (API calls, microservices) actually delivers the promised seamless experience to the end user.

Primary risk Functional regressions
Monitoring focus API availability & workflows
SaaS Transition
Third-Party

SaaS Adoption

Office 365, Salesforce, Workday

You replace internal tools with turnkey SaaS solutions. Having relinquished control over the infrastructure, you use Ekara as a trusted third party to objectively measure whether the vendor meets their SLA commitments.

Primary risk Loss of control & visibility
Monitoring focus External SLA enforcement (XLA)
Hybrid Cloud
Distributed

Hybrid Environments

On-Premise + Multi-Cloud

Part of your IT system remains on-site (sensitive databases) while the front-end migrates to the public cloud. Ekara monitors the end-to-end user experience to identify bottlenecks between these diverse environments.

Primary risk Slow inter-environment bridging
Monitoring focus End-to-end response time

Why Ekara

The trusted partner for cloud migration monitoring

For over 15 years, Ekara has helped leading enterprises navigate critical IT transformations by keeping end-user digital experience (DEM) at the heart of their decisions.

15+

Years of DEM expertise

Multi

AWS, Azure, GCP, OVH...

360°

RUM + STM Monitoring

24/7

Support & guidance

Comparative dashboards (Baseline)

Visualize your application performance before and after the migration at a glance. Instantly identify if the new cloud infrastructure is delivering on its promises of speed and reliability.

Unified monitoring (RUM + Synthetic)

Combine active monitoring (robots) to test 24/7 availability with passive measurement (Real User Monitoring) to capture the actual experience of 100% of your application traffic during Go-Live.

Independent trusted third party (XLA)

Don't rely solely on your Cloud provider's availability reports. Ekara acts as an independent trusted third party to objectively measure your SLAs and XLAs from outside the infrastructure.

Smart proactive alerting

With embedded AI (AI Incident Guard), instantly detect post-migration behavioral anomalies. Get alerted before end-users are impacted and push incidents directly into your ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira).

Global measurement coverage

Verify the impact of the migration from all your locations. Ekara's vast network of measurement points allows you to simulate traffic from major global ISPs, 4G/5G mobile networks, or directly from within your Intranet.

Security and sovereignty

A fully GDPR-compliant platform. Depending on the security requirements of your industry, Ekara can be deployed in SaaS mode (European Cloud) or entirely On-Premise during your transition process.

Objective third party
Cloud-agnostic (AWS, Azure...)
No-code scripting
Guaranteed hybrid monitoring

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about cloud migration monitoring

Find answers to the most common questions regarding performance measurement during a Cloud transition (AWS, Azure, SaaS).

01 What is cloud migration monitoring?

Cloud migration monitoring is the process of continuously evaluating the impact of an IT infrastructure change on application performance. The goal is to objectively measure response times and availability before (to create a baseline), during, and after the transition.

This approach guarantees that the Move to Cloud brings real added value without degrading the digital experience of your employees or end customers.

02 Why is the "Baseline" (Before/After) method essential?

Without a reference line (Baseline), it is impossible to objectively prove the technical success of a migration. By measuring the application on the old infrastructure (On-Premise), you capture a snapshot of historical performance.

Once the application is deployed in the Cloud, you compare the new metrics against this Baseline. This allows you to precisely identify speed gains or, conversely, any regressions that need immediate fixing.

03 What types of cloud environments can Ekara monitor?

The Ekara platform is completely agnostic and adapts to all environments. It allows you to monitor migrations to:

Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) Private & Hybrid Cloud SaaS Solutions (O365, Salesforce...) Serverless Architectures

The advantage of the DEM (Digital Experience Monitoring) approach is that the measurement happens on the client side, making it compatible with any hosting technology.

04 Can I use Ekara to verify my cloud provider's SLAs?

Absolutely. This is one of the primary use cases. During a migration, you delegate part of your infrastructure to a third party (Cloud host or SaaS vendor). Ekara reports provide undeniable proof in case of disputes.

They allow you to challenge providers by measuring the true perceived availability (XLA) rather than just the server availability claimed by the vendor.

05 Should we prioritize Synthetic Monitoring (STM) or RUM?

For effective cloud migration monitoring, combining both is the ideal strategy (Unified Monitoring).

Synthetic Monitoring (STM) is crucial before and during the migration to establish the Baseline and detect hard outages. Real User Monitoring (RUM) takes over post-migration to analyze how the new infrastructure handles real traffic and the diversity of your users' browsers and networks.

06 Does setting up monitoring delay the migration project?

No, quite the opposite. The no-code scenario creation tool (Ekara Studio) allows you to record critical user journeys in minutes. Deployment is almost immediate, especially in SaaS mode.

Anticipating performance measurement saves precious time during testing phases and prevents costly, time-consuming "Roll-backs" caused by undetected malfunctions.

07 Is an APM approach enough for a Move to Cloud?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is highly useful for profiling server-side code, but it has one major limitation: it is blind to network latencies and client-side rendering.

During a cloud migration, the geographic distance of the datacenter or DNS configurations can severely impact user load times, even if the cloud server responds quickly. Only a DEM approach measures the complete end-to-end performance.

08 Is my data secure during performance testing?

Yes. Ekara complies with the strictest security standards (GDPR). The solution integrates digital vaults to encrypt login credentials used by the testing robots.

Furthermore, for highly regulated sectors (banking, healthcare), you can deploy private robots directly within your network (On-Premise), ensuring that no business data ever traverses the public internet.

End-user measurement is critical when migrating applications to the cloud!

Migrating all or part of applications to the cloud has become a crucial step for many companies. This transition is not without risks. Cloud migration indeed involves several risks that companies must consider to ensure a successful transition

EKARA ensures a successful cloud migration: before, during, and after the migration.

 
 

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Why measuring the end-user experience is essential during a Cloud migration with Ekara’s solution

To ensure an optimal user experience

To prioritize issues

To facilitate communication with stakeholders

To secure data transfer