Monitoring Large Cloud-Based Systems

Mauro Andreolini, Marcello Pietri, Stefania Tosi, Andrea Balboni

2014

Abstract

Large scale cloud-based services are built upon a multitude of hardware and software resources, disseminated in one or multiple data centers. Controlling and managing these resources requires the integration of several pieces of software that may yield a representative view of the data center status. Today’s both closed and open-source monitoring solutions fail in different ways, including the lack of scalability, scarce representativity of global state conditions, inability in guaranteeing persistence in service delivery, and the impossibility of monitoring multi-tenant applications. In this paper, we present a novel monitoring architecture that addresses the aforementioned issues. It integrates a hierarchical scheme to monitor the resources in a cluster with a distributed hash table (DHT) to broadcast system state information among different monitors. This architecture strives to obtain high scalability, effectiveness and resilience, as well as the possibility of monitoring services spanning across different clusters or even different data centers of the cloud provider. We evaluate the scalability of the proposed architecture through a bottleneck analysis achieved by experimental results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Andreolini M., Pietri M., Tosi S. and Balboni A. (2014). Monitoring Large Cloud-Based Systems . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-019-2, pages 341-351. DOI: 10.5220/0004794003410351

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer14,
author={Mauro Andreolini and Marcello Pietri and Stefania Tosi and Andrea Balboni},
title={Monitoring Large Cloud-Based Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2014},
pages={341-351},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004794003410351},
isbn={978-989-758-019-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Monitoring Large Cloud-Based Systems
SN - 978-989-758-019-2
AU - Andreolini M.
AU - Pietri M.
AU - Tosi S.
AU - Balboni A.
PY - 2014
SP - 341
EP - 351
DO - 10.5220/0004794003410351