Authors: Professor Kenneth Cooper, Brian Richardson, Associate Professor Charles Morgan, Chaitanya Srinivas, Yashwanth kumar
Abstract: The rapid adoption of cloud computing, distributed applications, microservices, and real-time data platforms has significantly increased the complexity of monitoring enterprise data environments. Traditional monitoring approaches often rely on isolated logs, predefined thresholds, and infrastructure-level metrics, which may not provide sufficient visibility into data quality, pipeline behavior, application performance, and cross-system dependencies. This research proposes a Cloud Observability-Driven Framework for Real-Time Enterprise Data Monitoring that integrates metrics, logs, traces, events, data-quality indicators, and contextual metadata into a unified monitoring architecture. The proposed framework continuously collects telemetry from heterogeneous enterprise data sources and cloud-based processing components, correlates operational and data-level signals, and applies intelligent detection mechanisms to identify anomalies, failures, latency variations, data inconsistencies, and pipeline degradation in near real time. A centralized observability layer provides dashboards, alerts, dependency visualization, and analytical insights to support rapid identification and diagnosis of monitoring issues. The framework also incorporates automated alert prioritization, historical trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and policy-driven responses to improve operational efficiency and reduce mean time to detection and resolution. By combining cloud observability with real-time data monitoring, the proposed approach enables organizations to achieve greater transparency, reliability, scalability, and resilience across complex enterprise data ecosystems. The framework provides a foundation for proactive data operations and supports continuous monitoring of modern cloud-native enterprise environments.
International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology