Cloud Monitoring System: A Review

Cloud computing provides a flexible and large-scale infrastructure for individuals and organizations to deliver service-oriented solution at nominal cost. The cloud infrastructure management becomes more complex as data centers are growing faster in terms of hardware and software resources. Hence, an efficient cloud monitoring system is needed to manage the cloud infrastructure and optimize overall performance of the cloud.  The Multi-agent system is one of the best approaches to improve the performance of cloud. In this paper, we briefly discuss about basic concepts of cloud monitoring system along with comparative study of agent-based cloud monitoring system with respect to phases and properties of cloud monitoring system. A multi-agent cloud monitoring system collects raw data, filters out unwanted data and aggregates relevant data to aid the monitoring of cloud environment.