Resource Usage Monitoring in Clouds

Dhingra, Mohit and Lakshmi, J and Nandy, SK (2012) Resource Usage Monitoring in Clouds. In: ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Grid Computing, 20-23 September 2012, Beijing, China.

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Abstract

Monitoring of infrastructural resources in clouds plays a crucial role in providing application guarantees like performance, availability, and security. Monitoring is crucial from two perspectives - the cloud-user and the service provider. The cloud user’s interest is in doing an analysis to arrive at appropriate Service-level agreement (SLA) demands and the cloud provider’s interest is to assess if the demand can be met. To support this, a monitoring framework is necessary particularly since cloud hosts are subject to varying load conditions. To illustrate the importance of such a framework, we choose the example of performance being the Quality of Service (QoS) requirement and show how inappropriate provisioning of resources may lead to unexpected performance bottlenecks. We evaluate existing monitoring frameworks to bring out the motivation for building much more powerful monitoring frameworks. We then propose a distributed monitoring framework, which enables fine grained monitoring for applications and demonstrate with a prototype system implementation for typical use cases.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to the IEEE
Keywords:	Clouds, Monitoring, Quality of service, Performance analysis, Virtual machine monitors
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	22 Jan 2013 05:46
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2013 05:48
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45648

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