A cloud monitoring framework for self-configured monitoring slices based on multiple tools

The monitoring of cloud computing environments is a key point to assure the availability of the cloud slices offered to cloud users. However, there are not any monitoring systems that satisfy all the cloud administrator requirements which imposes that cloud slices need to be monitored by a set of monitoring systems. The set of monitoring system configuration necessary to monitor a cloud slice and the corresponding set of monitored metrics we define as a monitoring slice. Unfortunately, the monitoring slices need to be built using solutions that are not integrated with cloud platforms. This lack of integration imposes that cloud administrators manually configure the monitoring solutions or develop scripts to automate this task. In this paper we propose a framework to address the problem of creating monitoring slices automatically independent of the monitoring solutions employed. To evaluate our proposed framework in an IaaS scenario, we develop FlexACMS, flexible automate cloud monitoring slices, which relies on a modules that flexibly handles cloud platforms and monitoring solutions.