Cloud Metering and Monitoring

Abstract

For Service Oriented Infrastructures (SOI) and Cloud services, monitoring and metering are crucial tasks. For the proper execution of cloud applications & the monitoring of SLA compliance, the data gathered through monitoring is required. The motivations for and challenges in monitoring and metering cloud systems are discussed. The methods for monitoring the network and execution environment on virtualized infrastructures will be discussed together with the monitoring tools that are now available on various commercial and research platforms. Every distributed computing system has a basic feature that includes monitoring chores. Every service should be watched over in order to evaluate its effectiveness and enable remedial measures in the event of failure. A functional snapshot of the system's behaviour along the time axis is what monitoring data reflects. Such information is essential for pinpointing the source of issues or for fine-tuning various system components. For example, failure detection and recovery procedures require a monitoring component to determine whether to restart a specific server or subsystem based on the data gathered by the monitoring system.