Cloud and Virtualization Based Log Management Service

Abstract

With our computers becoming more capable and internet becoming more robust, virtualization- and cloud-based services have become prominent in their use. Virtualization technology has become a cost-effective and fast way to run simulations of models. Application virtualization helps run programs in environments different from the underlying OS. The cloud, similarly, has become an indispensable platform to deliver a variety of services, such as storage, software, network, infrastructure, and even virtualization. The aim is to integrate virtualization using open virtualization archives (OVAs) or LXC Containers with OpenStack [1] to host a cloud, along with real-time data analytics implanted using ELK (Elasticsearch [2, 3], Logstash, Kibana) stack [4] to create a platform which provides an alternate approach to the present practices of log management in companies, as the present log management technologies lack in one or more of efficiency, security, isolation, and ease of use.