Architecting a vRealize Operations Management Solution : vRealize Operations Use Cases for the VMware Cloud Provider Program : 5.5 Monitoring Service Levels in the Cloud
   
5.5 Monitoring Service Levels in the Cloud
Operating a public or private cloud typically requires agreed to SLAs.
Using vRealize Operations Manager to monitor service levels addresses the following use cases:
Defining policies that can be applied to monitor objects at different service levels
Defining thresholds to detect when monitored objects have breached or are about to breach defined service levels
Applying different policies to different groups of objects