Paper Info
Title
An overview of the commercial cloud monitoring tools: research dimensions, design issues, and state-of-the-art.
Abstract
Cloud monitoring activity involves dynamically tracking the Quality of Service (QoS) parameters related to virtualized resources (e.g., VM, storage, network, appliances, etc.), the physical resources they share, the applications running on them and data hosted on them. Applications and resources configuration in cloud computing environment is quite challenging considering a large number of heterogeneous cloud resources. Further, considering the fact that at given point of time, there may be need to change cloud resource configuration (number of VMs, types of VMs, number of appliance instances, etc.) for meet application QoS requirements under uncertainties (resource failure, resource overload, workload spike, etc.). Hence, cloud monitoring tools can assist a cloud providers or application developers in: (i) keeping their resources and applications operating at peak efficiency, (ii) detecting variations in resource and application performance, (iii) accounting the service level agreement violations of certain QoS parameters, and (iv) tracking the leave and join operations of cloud resources due to failures and other dynamic configuration changes. In this paper, we identify and discuss the major research dimensions and design issues related to engineering cloud monitoring tools. We further discuss how the aforementioned research dimensions and design issues are handled by current academic research as well as by commercial monitoring tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s00607-014-0398-5
Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cloud monitoring, Cloud application monitoring, Cloud resource monitoring, Cloud application provisioning, Cloud monitoring metrics, Quality of service parameters, Service level agreement, 68U01
Journal
97
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1436-5057
53
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.71
25
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khalid Alhamazani1682.89
Rajiv Ranjan24747267.72
Karan Mitra316917.84
Fethi Rabhi442750.68
Prem Prakash Jayaraman5531.71
Samee Ullah Khan6160581.01
Adnene Guabtni71188.61
Vasudha Bhatnagar818117.69