The invention relates to a method for monitoring an automated facility (A), a plurality of field appliances (F1, F2, F3, F4) being incorporated into the facility (A), said method comprising: connecting a cloud gateway (CG) to the first communication network (KN1) of the facility (A); determining the field appliances (F1, F2, F3, F4) connected to the first communication network (KN1); checking whether, for at least some of the determined field appliances (F1, F2, F3, F4), appliance descriptions corresponding to the determined field appliances (F1, F2, F3, F4) are available on a server (SE) connected to the cloud gateway (CG) by means of a second communication network (KN2); downloading the appliance descriptions corresponding to the respective determined field appliances (F1, F2, F3, F4) from the server (SE) and installing the appliance descriptions on the cloud gateway (CG); creating at least one configuration plan (KP) by means of the server (SE), the configuration plan (KP) defining at least one field appli
