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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions
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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

by Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Metering/monitoring

The dynamic nature of the cloud and its pay-by-use economic model makes monitoring a crucial architectural component. Monitoring also forms the basis for metering which measures how use resources are used to support the charges levied. Metering also enables the automation of variable service quantities to support large variances in customer requirements.

Metrics used in metering services include the following:

  • Per-unit of time for services
  • Per-unit of data
  • Per-transaction
  • Per-user
  • One-time charges

Services are monitored and metered across the operating system, network, and application categories. The operating system is fundamental to all monitoring and some of the fundamental tools are as follows:

  • Syslog: Access to ...
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