3 posts tagged with "management"

As cloud environments grow, one question naturally follows: "How many resources are we actually using right now?"
Where are the servers, how many volumes are connected, how many public IPs are in use... Checking each service one by one and organizing everything in a spreadsheet takes time and is prone to mistakes.

To resolve this inconvenience, KakaoCloud has officially released Resource Explorer, a service that makes it easier to view and manage cloud resources.
Resource Explorer is a service that lets you view various resources such as instances, Block Storage, public IPs, and load balancers in one integrated screen by KakaoCloud project. You can search resources by various criteria such as name, ID, status, and tags, and move to the details page of the corresponding resource with one click to continue the tasks you need.

In this post, we announce the release of Resource Explorer and briefly introduce its key features and use cases.

🏷️ How to distinguish resources by "context" - tags!​

The ability to classify and filter resources based on tags is especially useful for users.

"Who created this instance?" "Were there this many volumes running?" "Was this for testing or production?"

The simplest and most effective way to answer these questions is tags. Resource Explorer helps you systematically organize and explore cloud resources around this tag feature.

You can assign desired metadata to each resource as key:value tags and give them clear meaning and purpose, as shown below.

• Project:Alpha – Belongs to a specific project
• Environment:Production – Production environment
• Owner:ML Team – Responsible organization
• Billing:2505 – Cost management

Previously, resources were distinguished only by name or resource ID. Now you can understand why a resource exists and what intent it was created with through tags. This meaning-based organization enables much faster and more accurate exploration than a simple list.

For example,

✅ Want to quickly view only AI infrastructure in production? → Filter by Environment:Production, Owner:AI Team!

✅ Want to view only test servers created last month? → Check immediately with the Environment:Dev, CreateDate:2025-04 tags!

Users can freely create custom tags by combining the keys and values they want, and can easily add tags to selected resources or edit existing tags. System tags automatically attached when resources are created, such as kc:platform, can also be used together.

Check the types of tags here!

In addition, Resource Explorer provides several features that help cloud operators resolve frequently encountered situations faster and more efficiently.

📂 Understand many resources at a glance - Integrated view​

Previously, to check resources scattered across services, you had to move between consoles and view them one by one. Now, in Resource Explorer, you can check instances, Block Storage, public IPs, load balancers, and backups all at once. Because you can view the entire resource structure within a project, it can be used as a starting point for asset identification.

"I need to extract a list of all running VMs and public IPs." → Just select the project and the list is generated automatically!

⏱️ Find resources immediately and respond immediately - Fast condition-based search​

Finding one or two resources among many can take more time than expected. Resource Explorer provides an exploration feature that lets you combine various conditions such as name, ID, tag, region, and creation date, save search conditions, and quickly reuse them.

"I want to see only Block Storage created last month with 'db' in the name." → Combine conditions to filter and get results in seconds!

🚀 Cloud resource management is now lighter and smarter​

Resource Explorer is like the "eyes" of cloud operators.👀 It finds resources that were not visible, visualizes structures that were difficult to understand, and makes reporting and response flows much faster.

Resource Explorer can be used immediately in the KakaoCloud console without separate configuration.
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KakaoCloud's new service, Monitoring Flow, has been released.

As the name suggests, Monitoring Flow is a service focused on monitoring application status in real time and automating complex business flows to resolve inefficient issues in systems.

If you have experience with monitoring in an existing cloud environment, you may agree that building a monitoring system, automating processes, and integrating systems require considerable time and resources. Although many companies are working to solve these problems, the reality is that they still struggle with manual work and inefficient management. KakaoCloud developed Monitoring Flow as a solution that presents a new monitoring standard for system management and makes it easy to solve complex problems in cloud environments.

Now let's take a closer look at how Monitoring Flow works and what features it provides.

What is Monitoring Flow?​

Monitoring Flow is a service that helps monitor application status in real time through APIs and automate user-defined workflows. Users can create monitoring scenarios directly and schedule them to run automatically at desired times. Monitoring Flow is especially strong in that workflows can be intuitively designed and managed easily in the KakaoCloud console without writing code. This enables not only IT experts but also non-experts to easily build monitoring processes.

] In addition, through integration with Alert Center, you can set thresholds for key metrics and receive notifications that match the conditions. For example, if the response time of a specific server exceeds the configured threshold, a notification is automatically sent so that the person in charge can resolve the issue immediately. By using these features, you can greatly improve the stability and efficiency of system operations.

How Monitoring Flow works​

The basic concepts of Monitoring Flow are Step, Scenario, and Flow Connection.

A step is the smallest unit that composes a workflow in Monitoring Flow and represents a single task. A scenario means a workflow, and it automatically executes a defined work flow composed of various steps according to a schedule. A flow connection is a channel that connects subnets in a VPC, enabling monitoring of KakaoCloud internal resources. Because resources can be accessed for the subnets of the VPC registered in the flow connection during monitoring, flow connection registration is required.

Monitoring Flow process

Monitoring Flow constructs a workflow based on steps configured by the user and executes the tasks defined in each step sequentially. Because the process proceeds through various paths depending on conditions, you can easily identify workflow progress and points where errors occur. In addition, you can monitor system status in real time and respond quickly through preconfigured notification policies.

Monitoring Flow features​

Monitoring Flow provides users with various features such as intuitive workflow design, real-time monitoring, and serverless architecture, helping them efficiently manage complex cloud environments. Detailed features of Monitoring Flow are as follows.

1. Intuitive workflow visualization

Monitoring Flow visually represents user-defined scenarios with an intuitive UI and drag-and-drop method, and supports easy configuration of complex workflows. This lets users understand the status and progress of each step at a glance, quickly identify and resolve issues, and makes workflows accessible even to users without development experience, lowering the barrier to workflow management and enabling fast prototyping and operation.

Configuration in the Monitoring Flow web console

2. Process structuring and automation

Monitoring Flow lets you design complex workflows by dividing them into multiple steps and setting conditions for each step so that processes can proceed through various paths. This allows users to manage workflows flexibly according to conditions and automate repetitive tasks to improve operational efficiency.

3. Serverless architecture

Monitoring Flow runs in a serverless environment that does not require server management, so users can build and run workflows without worrying about infrastructure management. Because costs are charged only for usage, it is cost-efficient and suitable for small and medium-sized businesses with limited resources.

4. Integration with various services

Monitoring Flow integrates with various KakaoCloud services, allowing workflow execution results to be integrated with other systems or important notifications to be managed automatically. These integration features enable efficient resource management and fast issue response in complex work environments.

5. Real-time monitoring and fast response

Monitoring Flow provides a feature for monitoring workflow execution status in real time. Users can check errors that occur at each step in real time and respond quickly when an issue occurs. This improves operational stability and minimizes downtime.

Closing​

KakaoCloud Monitoring Flow is a powerful tool that lets you conveniently manage system monitoring and process automation in one platform. The intuitive UI and various features introduced in this post can greatly improve the stability and efficiency of system operations.

Select Monitoring Flow in the KakaoCloud console and easily design the workflow you want. You can find more detailed instructions in KakaoCloud's How-to Guides documentation.

Thank you.

KakaoCloud resource hierarchy

Hello, KakaoCloud IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a service that lets you manage access and control permissions for cloud resources and user groups.

Recently, KakaoCloud released the Reader role for both the 'Organization' and 'Project' levels in IAM.

An 'Organization' is the top-level concept in the KakaoCloud hierarchy and can be viewed as a cloud domain. A 'Project' is a group that can own service-level resources and is a lower-level hierarchy within an organization. At both the organization and project levels, the Reader role is fundamentally granted only permission to view information or resources within the corresponding group.

• A user granted Reader permission at the organization level can view the organization's information and all project information within that organization. However, the user cannot view or manage resources other than project information. It is an organization-level role with minimal permissions compared with Organization Owner and Organization Admin.

• Project Reader is also a permission configured only to view resources by project. It is one permission level lower than Project Member and can view resources owned within the project. To create, read, update, or delete resources beyond resource viewing, a user must be granted Project Member or higher permissions.

With the addition of the Reader role at the organization and project levels, permissions can now be created more granularly based on users' affiliations and responsibilities within an organization. The changed IAM role system applies equally to all KakaoCloud regions.

For more information about role management in KakaoCloud, see the IAM role management documentation.

We will continue working to provide safer and more convenient cloud services.

Thank you.