Cloud Application Monitoring: The mOSAIC Approach

Cloud computing delegates the management of any kind of resources, such as the computing environment or storage systems for example, to the network. The wide-spread permeation of the cloud paradigm implies the need of new programming models that are able to utilize such new features. Once the problem of enabling developers to manage cloud resources in a clear and flexible way is solved, a new problem emerges: the monitoring of the quality of the acquired resources and of the services offered to final users. As the first step, the mOSAIC API and framework aim at offering a solution for the development of interoperable, portable and cloud-provider independent cloud applications. As the second step, this paper introduces the mOSAIC monitoring components that facilitate the building of custom monitoring systems for cloud applications using the mOSAIC API.