Observing the clouds: a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring

Ward, Jonathan Stuart; Barker, Adam

doi:10.1186/s13677-014-0024-2

Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Taxonomy of monitoring tools

From: Observing the clouds: a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring

System	Architecture	Communication	Collection	Origin	Use case
Astrolabe [8]	Decentralised	Multicast	Push	Cluster Computing	Metric Collection and Health Monitoring
Cacti [61]	2-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Network Monitoring and Metric Collection
cloudinit.d [10]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Health Monitoring
CloudSense [75]	n-tier	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
collectd [39]	2-tier/n-tier	Unicast/multicast	Push	Enterprise Computing	Metric Collection
DARGOS [6]	2-tier	Middleware	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
Dhingra etal [73]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
Ganglia [31]	n-tier	Unicast	Push	Grid Computing	Metric Collection
GEMS [5]	Decentralised	Multicast	Push	Cluster Computing	Health Monitoring
GMonE [77]	2-tier	Middlewear	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
GroundWork [62]	n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Metric Collection and Health Monitoring
Icinga [59]	n-tier	Unicast	Push	Enterprise Computing	Metric Collection and Health Monitoring
Konig etal [7]	Decentralised	Multicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
Logstash [41]	Centralised	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Event Processing
MonALISA [52]	n-tier	Unicast	Push	Grid Computing	Metric Collection and Health Monitoring
Munin [63]	n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Network Monitoring
Nagios [35]	2-tier/n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Network Monitoring and Health Monitoring
OpenNMS [64]	2-tier/n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Metric Collection and Health Monitoring
OpenNebula [10][80]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
PCMONS [83]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Metic Collection
Reconnoiter [5]	n-tier	Unicast	Push	Enterprise Computing	Metric Collection and Health Monitoring
Riemann [9]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Event Processing
sFlow [48]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Enterprise Computing	Network Monitoring
Spiceworks [65]	2-tier/n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Network Monitoring
StatsD [42]	2-tier	Unicast	Push	Enterprise Computing	Metric Collection
SQRT-C [71]	2-tier	Middleware	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
Varanus [86]	Decentralised	Multicast	Push	Cloud Computing	Metric Collection
visPerf [55]	Centralised/decentralised	Unicast	Push	Grid Monitoring	Metric Collection and Log Processing
Zabbix [66]	2-tier/n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Monitoring	Health Monitoring and Metric Collection
Zenoss [60]	2-tier/n-tier	Unicast	Pull	Enterprise Computing	Health Monitoring and Metric Collection

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