Practical Aspects for Effective Monitoring of SLAs in Cloud Computing and Virtual Platforms

Ali Imran Jehangiri, Edwin Yaqub, Ramin Yahyapour

2013

Abstract

Cloud computing is transforming the software landscape. Software services are increasingly designed in modular and decoupled fashion that communicate over a network and are deployed on the Cloud. Cloud offers three service models namely Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Softwareas- a-Service (SaaS). Although this allows better management of resources, the Quality of Service (QoS) in dynamically changing environments like Cloud must be legally stipulated as a Service Level Agreement (SLA). This introduces several challenges in the area of SLA enforcement. A key problem is detecting the root cause of performance problems which may lie in hosted service or deployment platforms (PaaS or IaaS), and adjusting resources accordingly. Monitoring and Analytic methods have emerged as promising and inevitable solutions in this context, but require precise real time monitoring data. Towards this goal, we assess practical aspects for effective monitoring of SLA-aware services hosted in Cloud. We present two real-world application scenarios for deriving requirements and present the prototype of ourMonitoring and Analytics framework. We claim that this work provides necessary foundations for researching SLA-aware root cause analysis algorithms under realistic setup.

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Imran Jehangiri A., Yaqub E. and Yahyapour R. (2013). Practical Aspects for Effective Monitoring of SLAs in Cloud Computing and Virtual Platforms . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 447-454. DOI: 10.5220/0004507504470454


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@conference{closer13,
author={Ali Imran Jehangiri and Edwin Yaqub and Ramin Yahyapour},
title={Practical Aspects for Effective Monitoring of SLAs in Cloud Computing and Virtual Platforms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={447-454},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004507504470454},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Practical Aspects for Effective Monitoring of SLAs in Cloud Computing and Virtual Platforms
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Imran Jehangiri A.
AU - Yaqub E.
AU - Yahyapour R.
PY - 2013
SP - 447
EP - 454
DO - 10.5220/0004507504470454