Authors:
            
                    Eric Kübler
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Mirjam Minor
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    Goethe University, Germany
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring, Workflow, OpenShift.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
                    ; 
                        Cloud Computing
                    ; 
                        Cloud Middleware Frameworks
                    ; 
                        Platforms and Applications
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                Prospective cloud management requires sophisticated monitoring capabilities. In this paper, we introduce a
novel monitoring framework for cloud-based workflow systems called cWorkload. cWorkload integrates monitoring
information from different layers of the cloud architecture. The paper puts its focus on the two-layer
monitoring regarding the workflow layer and the PaaS layer. We present the layered monitoring architecture,
an implementation of the two-layer cross-monitoring part, and an experimental evaluation with sample
workflow data. Further, we discuss related work on cloud monitoring divided into one-layer, multi-layer, and
cross-layer approaches. Our plans for future work on extending the implementation by further layers towards
a cross-layer, prospective monitoring for prospective cloud management are described.