Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is a platform as a service built on top of Cloud Foundry, an open source cloud computing platform that allows developers to easily deploy, operate, and scale cloud-native applications. Enterprises can manage the entire application lifecycle, from packaging to deployment to execution. There are three primary challenges with monitoring Pivotal Cloud Foundry in production environments:

• Understanding operational state
• Managing applications at scale
• Operating multiple clouds and applications