Anatomy of Cloud Monitoring and Metering
Ali Anwar, Anca Sailer, Andrzej Kochut, Ali Raza Butt · 2015
Microservices based architecture has recently gained traction among the cloud service providers in quest for a more scalable and reliable modular architecture. In parallel with this architectural choice, cloud providers are also facing the market demand for fine grained usage based prices. Both the management of the microservices complex dependencies, as well as the fine grained metering require the providers to track and log detailed monitoring data from their deployed cloud setups. Hence, on one hand, the providers need to record all such performance changes and events, while on the other hand, they are concerned with the additional cost associated with the resources required to store and process this ever increasing amount of collected data.