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Toward reusable SLA monitoring capabilities

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Simon Parkin, Professor Graham MorganORCiD

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Abstract

Within Internet-based service environments, distributed monitoring mechanisms face challenges with respect to the diverse communication protocols, application languages, and monitoring requirements that exist. Creation of monitoring solutions on a per-service basis becomes time-consuming and misses opportunities to reuse existing logic. Ideally the deployment of monitoring solutions would be simple. Simplicity could be achieved by freeing monitoring solutions from domain dependencies, promoting the ability to use automatically generated monitoring code and support for the automated deployment of monitoring components. Work is presented here that progresses these ambitions by providing a generic, distributed monitoring and evaluation framework based on Metric Collector (MeCo) components. MeCo components form part of a unified monitoring framework which can interpret Service Level Agreements to automatically provide tailored service monitoring. Once deployed, these components can gather measurement data across a range of service technologies as used within E-Commerce services, with minimal impact upon observed service environments.

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Author(s): Parkin SE, Morgan G

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Software: Practice and Experience

Year: 2012

Volume: 42

Issue: 3

Pages: 261-280

Print publication date: 08/03/2011

ISSN (print): 0038-0644

ISSN (electronic): 1097-024X

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.1060

DOI: 10.1002/spe.1060

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