A flexible monitoring infrastructure for a cloud-based ESB

Abstract

Nowadays, cloud platforms are widely used both in-premise in so called private Cloud or through public Clouds. Multiple models are available: IaaS platform to take benefit of ressources virtualisation, PaaS to provide development and deployment of Cloud dedicated IDE, SaaS to provide end-user ready applications. Main added value comes from the elasticity and multi-tenancy necessary for accessing largely distributed services to build complex application. Meanwhile, this capability raises the need for a monitoring infrastructure that would ensure services are behaving as expected. The control should be operated in a non intrusive and efficient way. At the same time, Event Driven Architectures (EDAs) are considerably growing thanks to the loosely coupling paradigm they provide. The SocEDA project investigates innovative solutions to provide a Cloud-based platform for large scale social aware Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). In this context, we take benefit from both Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and EDA technologies in order to provide a flexible monitoring infrastructure for a cloud-friendly ESB. In this paper, we present the main aspects of the implemented middleware.