A systems administrator is attempting to gather information about services and resource utilization on VMs in a cloud environment. Which of the following will best accomplish this objective?

Syslog collects event log messages and system alerts from hosts, but it does not natively aggregate or report quantitative resource utilization metrics like CPU or memory percentages.

SNMP is used primarily for polling and monitoring network devices and can retrieve some system metrics, but it is not the best tool for comprehensive VM service and resource utilization in a modern cloud environment.

A CMDB (Configuration Management Database) stores records of IT assets and their relationships for configuration management purposes, not for real-time or historical resource utilization tracking.

Service management refers to ITSM frameworks and processes such as incident and change management, not to monitoring or gathering technical performance data from VMs.

Performance monitoring solutions are designed specifically to aggregate real-time and historical resource utilization metrics - such as CPU load, memory consumption, and disk throughput - from virtual machines in a cloud environment. They provide dashboards and alerting based on these metrics, enabling administrators to identify bottlenecks and capacity issues. This directly satisfies the requirement to gather information about both services and resource utilization.