HiSML: A High-Level Integrated Service Monitoring Language

Abstract

In this paper, we propose HiSML, a high-level integrated service monitoring language. The language is designed to build monitoring solutions for cloud computing platforms. The primary benefits of HiSML over existing monitoring tools are: 1) it is used to build the monitoring solution from scratch, and the monitored objects are specialized for the target platform, 2) it integrally monitors services in all layers of cloud computing platforms: infrastructure layer, platform layer and software layer, 3) it allows programmers to describe the dependency between monitored services to guide analysis on the collected data, 4) it allows programmers to manually store and backup the monitored data, 5) it supports hybrid programming with other programming languages to assist the adaptive management of cloud computing platforms.