Monitoring-as-a-service in the cloud: spec phd award (invited abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Shicong Meng;Ling Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

State monitoring is a fundamental building block for Cloud services. The demand for providing state monitoring as services (MaaS) continues to grow and is evidenced by Cloud-Watch from Amazon EC2, which allows Cloud consumers to pay for monitoring a selection of performance metrics with coarse-grained periodical sampling of runtime states. This dissertation research [1], awarded with the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2012, is dedicated to innovative research and development of an elastic framework for providing state monitoring as a service (MaaS). We analyze limitations of existing techniques, systematically identify the need and the challenges at different layers of a Cloud monitoring service platform, and develop a suite of distributed monitoring techniques to support flexible monitoring infrastructure, cost-effective state monitoring and monitoring-enhanced Cloud management.