Cloud-native monitoring is a critical aspect of ensuring the smooth operation and reliability of cloud-based applications and services. It involves tracking key metrics, such as latency, traffic, error rate, and saturation, to ensure that users experience fast and reliable service. Cloud-native monitoring also helps businesses secure their operations, maintain compliance with regulatory standards, and strengthen security posture. The term 'Cloud-Native Monitoring' refers to the greater difficulty of truly monitoring and understanding large, complex architectures of microservices run in the cloud. Key components of cloud-native monitoring include metrics, events, logs, tracing, alerting, checks, and automation. Challenges associated with cloud-native monitoring include dynamic scalability, high volume of data, complexity of microservices architectures, and visibility across diverse environments. To overcome these challenges, it is essential to choose a cloud-native monitoring platform that provides comprehensive insights, supports large-scale investigations, integrates with orchestration and automation tools, is easy to implement, aligns with DevOps culture, offers accurate and reliable alerts, and has a Monitoring as Code approach. Checkly stands out as a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly platform for cloud-native monitoring, providing features such as end-to-end API & browser monitoring, proactive monitoring, monitoring testing and staging environments, integration with CI/CD pipelines, reporting and dashboards, global locations, alerting and notifications. By adopting a cloud-native monitoring strategy and leveraging the capabilities of Checkly or similar tools, businesses can ensure their cloud-based applications and services deliver high performance, reliability, and user experience.