Cloud Computing

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Monitoring: A Fundamental Process to Provide QoS Guarantees in Cloud-Based Platforms

Gregory Katsaros

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

Roland Kübert

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

Georgina Gallizo

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

Tinghe Wang

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

CONTENTS

15.1  Introduction

15.2  Monitoring in the Cloud

15.2.1  IaaS - Virtual and Physical Infrastructure Monitoring

15.2.2  PaaS - Management and Collection in the Platform Level

15.2.3  SaaS – Monitoring the Cloud-Hosted Application

15.3  Available Monitoring Tools/Solution

15.3.1  Ganglia

15.3.2  Nagios

15.3.3  Hyperic HQ

15.3.4  Lattice Monitoring Framework

15.3.5  Zenoss

15.3.6  Summary ...