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IaaSMon: Monitoring Architecture for Public Cloud Computing Data Centers

  • Juan Gutierrez-Aguado1,
  • Jose M. Alcaraz Calero2 &
  • Wladimiro Diaz Villanueva1 

Journal of Grid Computing volume 14, pages 283–297 (2016)Cite this article

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Abstract

Monitoring of cloud computing infrastructures is an imperative necessity for cloud providers and administrators to analyze, optimize and discover what is happening in their own infrastructures. Current monitoring solutions do not fit well for this purpose mainly due to the incredible set of new requirements imposed by the particular requirements associated to cloud infrastructures. This paper describes in detail the main reasons why current monitoring solutions do not work well. Also, it provides an innovative monitoring architecture that enables the monitoring of the physical and virtual machines available within a cloud infrastructure in a non-invasive and transparent way making it suitable not only for private cloud computing but also for public cloud computing infrastructures. This architecture has been validated by means of a prototype integrating an existing enterprise-class monitoring solution, Nagios, with the control and data planes of OpenStack, a well-known stack for cloud infrastructures. As a result, our new monitoring architecture is able to extend the exiting Nagios functionalities to fit in the monitoring of cloud infrastructures. The proposed architecture has been designed, implemented and released as open source to the scientific community. The proposal has also been empirically validated in a production-level cloud computing infrastructure running a test bed with up to 128 VMs where overhead and responsiveness has been carefully analyzed.

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  1. Departament d’Informàtica, Universitat de València, Avda. De la Universitat, s/n 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Juan Gutierrez-Aguado & Wladimiro Diaz Villanueva

  2. School of Engineering and Computing, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley Campus, Paisley, PA1 2BE, Scotland

    Jose M. Alcaraz Calero

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Gutierrez-Aguado, J., Alcaraz Calero, J.M. & Diaz Villanueva, W. IaaSMon: Monitoring Architecture for Public Cloud Computing Data Centers. J Grid Computing 14, 283–297 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-015-9357-4

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  • Received: 02 June 2014

  • Accepted: 23 November 2015

  • Published: 04 March 2016

  • Issue Date: June 2016

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-015-9357-4

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Keywords

  • Cloud computing
  • Monitoring
  • Distributed monitoring
  • Network management
  • Infrastructure-as-a-service
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