Observing the clouds : a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring
Abstract
Monitoring is an important aspect of designing and maintaining large-scale systems. Cloud computing presents a unique set of challenges to monitoring including: on-demand infrastructure, unprecedented scalability, rapid elasticity and performance uncertainty. There are a wide range of monitoring tools originating from cluster and high-performance computing, grid computing and enterprise computing, as well as a series of newer bespoke tools, which have been designed exclusively for cloud monitoring. These tools express a number of common elements and designs, which address the demands of cloud monitoring to various degrees. This paper performs an exhaustive survey of contemporary monitoring tools from which we derive a taxonomy, which examines how effectively existing tools and designs meet the challenges of cloud monitoring. We conclude by examining the socio-technical aspects of monitoring, and investigate the engineering challenges and practices behind implementing monitoring strategies for cloud computing.
Citation
Ward , J S & Barker , A D 2014 , ' Observing the clouds : a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring ' , Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications , vol. 3 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-014-0024-2
Publication
Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2192-113XType
Journal article
Rights
© 2014 Ward and Barker; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
Description
This research was supported by a Royal Society Industry Fellowship and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) grant. Date of Acceptance: 10/12/2014Collections
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