Authors:
Gregory Katsaros
1
;
Georgina Galizo
1
;
Roland Kübert
1
;
Tinghe Wang
1
;
J. Oriol Fitó
2
and
Daniel Henriksson
3
Affiliations:
1
HLRS, Germany
;
2
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
;
3
Umeå University, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Cloud computing, Monitoring, Information management, Energy efficiency monitoring.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Fundamentals
;
Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Service Monitoring and Control
;
Services Science
Abstract:
While the Cloud computing paradigm is maturing and gaining wide acceptance, topics like Quality of Service assurance and resource monitoring will remain active fields of investigation and research. In this paper, we identify characteristics of the monitoring infrastructure in Cloud environments and we present a new architectural approach. The proposed mechanism is spanning across different levels of the infrastructure, providing monitoring data from the application, virtual and physical infrastructure as well as energy efficiency related parameters. Apart from the collection mechanism, we present a monitoring management and storage framework which lies above the infrastructure layer. By exploiting open source APIs combined with custom components we have come up with a generic yet efficient solution, applicable to public, private and hybrid Cloud scenarios.