Multi-level monitoring and analysis of web-scale service based applications

Abstract

This paper presents a platform that aims at monitoring and analyzing large service-oriented applications executing on a very large scale. This is part of a vision of web-scale service utilization and management that is proposed by the SOA4All EU project. The paper shows how the platform obtains data from distributed runtimes and how it presents monitoring information at different levels of abstraction. They range from low-level infrastructure-related event details to high-level service and process analysis. Each level uses appropriate visualization techniques and widgets in order to convey the relevant information to the users in an efficient manner. The platform is under development and an advanced prototype is already available and described in the paper. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.