A method for implementing software application monitoring techniques is provided. The method embeds, by at least one processor, a monitor in an application to create a self-monitoring application package, wherein the monitor is configured to generate metrics data associated with functional health of the application; deploys the self-monitoring application package to a remote computing system, via a communication device communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; executes the self-monitoring application package, by the remote computing system; automatically receives, via the communication device, the metrics data from the remote computing system; migrates the self-monitoring application package to a second remote computing system, wherein the monitor is configured to generate the metrics data independent of a remote computing system location of the self-monitoring application package; executes the self-monitoring application package by the second remote computing system; and automatically receives the metrics data from the second remote computing system.