A cloud provider is increasingly discovering hard-to-find issues within the growing infrastructure. The provider has all the basic necessary tools implemented to collect and store data regarding the…

Event correlation analyzes data that has already been collected and cannot itself gather the foundational information needed to build intelligence across a growing infrastructure.

Comprehensive event collection aggregates raw telemetry from all distributed infrastructure sources, creating the complete data foundation required to build analytical intelligence and surface relevant events. The question notes the provider only has 'basic' tools in place, indicating that expanding event collection across the growing infrastructure is the necessary next step. Without capturing data from all relevant sources, no higher-order analysis technique can produce accurate or meaningful intelligence.

Event alerts are threshold-based notifications triggered by predefined conditions and are reactive by nature, not a technique for proactively building intelligence about unknown or emerging issues.

Event-based workflows automate responses to known events but do not provide a mechanism for discovering or synthesizing intelligence about new or relevant events.