       Towards cross-layer monitoring of cloud
                      workflows

                         Eric Kübler and Mirjam Minor

Wirtschaftsinformatik, Goethe University, Robert-Mayer-Str.10, Frankfurt am Main,
                                    Germany,
                {ekuebler, minor}@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de


      Abstract. Prospective cloud management requires sophisticated moni-
      toring capabilities. In this paper, we introduce a novel monitoring frame-
      work for cloud-based workflow systems called cWorkload. cWorkload in-
      tegrates monitoring information from different layers of the cloud archi-
      tecture. The paper puts its focus on the two-layer monitoring regarding
      the workflow layer and the PaaS layer. We present the layered monitoring
      architecture, an implementation of the two-layer cross-monitoring part,
      and an experimental evaluation with sample workflow data. Further, we
      discuss related work on cloud monitoring divided into one-layer, multi-
      layer, and cross-layer approaches. Our plans for future work on extending
      the implementation by further layers towards a cross-layer, prospective
      monitoring for prospective cloud management are described. The orig-
      inal version of this re-submission has been published at CLOSER 2015
      [Kübler and Minor, 2015].

      Keywords: Cloud Management, Cloud Monitoring, Workflow Manage-
      ment, Case-Based Reasoning


References
[Kübler and Minor, 2015] Kübler, E. and Minor, M. (2015). Towards cross-layer mon-
  itoring of cloud workflows. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on
  Cloud Computing and Services Science (Accepted for publication), pages 389 – 396,
  Lisbon, Portugal. SciTePress.


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  academic purposes. In: R. Bergmann, S. Görg, G. Müller (Eds.): Proceedings of
  the LWA 2015 Workshops: KDML, FGWM, IR, and FGDB. Trier, Germany, 7.-9.
  October 2015, published at http://ceur-ws.org


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