Monitoring and Alerting of An OpenStack Cloud

Authors(5) :-Ravi Verma, Ojas Rahate, Ashish Gouda, Nirav Racherla, Prof. Khandu Khot

Currently Cloud Computing is one of the most widely used technologies. Almost all the big players in IT industry deploy their own cloud. Once the cloud is deployed, it must be maintained over a period of time and the administrator must know about the incomings, outgoings and the status of the cloud at any given time. The above role of the administrator can be simplified by saying monitoring. Monitoring-as-a-service (MaaS) is one of many cloud delivery models under anything as a service (XaaS). It is a framework that facilitates the deployment of monitoring functionalities for various other services and applications within the cloud. The most common application for MaaS is online state monitoring, which continuously tracks certain states of applications, networks, systems, instances or any element that may be deployable within the cloud. Currently, monitoring in an OpenStack Cloud can be done using various tools like Nagios, Zenoss, Ceilometer, but all the tools have various loopholes. Strengths of the pre-existing tools i.e. of Nagios, Zenoss and Rackspace will be combined; gaps present in these tools will be filled in to develop a new plugin which serves as a better tool when it comes to monitoring the application.

Authors and Affiliations

Ravi Verma
Department of Information Technology, PVPPCOE, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Ojas Rahate
Department of Information Technology, PVPPCOE, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Ashish Gouda
Department of Information Technology, PVPPCOE, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nirav Racherla
Department of Information Technology, PVPPCOE, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Prof. Khandu Khot
Department of Information Technology, PVPPCOE, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Cloud, Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Monitoring, Monitoring-as-a-service, Nagios, Rackspace

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 2 | March-April 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 941-944
Manuscript Number : CSEIT1722297
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2456-3307

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Ravi Verma, Ojas Rahate, Ashish Gouda, Nirav Racherla, Prof. Khandu Khot, "Monitoring and Alerting of An OpenStack Cloud", International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp.941-944, March-April-2017. |          | BibTeX | RIS | CSV

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