Title :
An Agent-Based Platform for Cloud Applications Performance Monitoring
Author :
Aversa, Rocco ; Panza, Nicola ; Tasquier, Luca
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. & Inf. Eng., Second Univ. of Naples, Aversa, Italy
Abstract :
The monitoring of the resources is one among the major challenges that the virtualization brings with it within the Cloud environments. In order to ensure scalability and dependability, the user´s applications are often distributed on several computational resources, such as Virtual Machines, storages and so on. For this reason, the customer is able to retrieve information about the Cloud infrastructure only by acquiring monitoring services provided by the same vendor that is offering the Cloud resources, thus being forced to trust the Cloud provider about the detected performance indexes. In this work we present a complete architecture that covers all the monitoring activities that take place within a Cloud application lifecycle: we also propose an agent-based implementation of a particular module of the designed architecture that ensures high customization of the monitoring facility and more tolerance to network and resource failures.
Keywords :
cloud computing; information retrieval; multi-agent systems; software performance evaluation; virtualisation; agent-based platform; cloud application performance monitoring; computational resources; information retrieval; monitoring facility; resource monitoring; virtual machines; virtualization; Charge measurement; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Monitoring; Probes; Standards; Time measurement; Cloud Monitoring; IaaS Cloud; Mobile Agents; Service Level Agreement;
Conference_Titel :
Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2015 Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Blumenau
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8869-3
DOI :
10.1109/CISIS.2015.79