Evaluating DataSeries for use with a Job Centric Monitoring Service
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2006-08-17
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The role of monitoring data in IT environments is changing. Once
reserved primarily for debugging purposes, monitoring data is increasingly
being integrated into the daily use and management of IT systems. These new
uses place different requirements on the storage and access to the monitoring
data. We believe that such requirements are not met by existing data
providers. In this paper we propose using DataSeries, a generic trace
format developed at HP Labs, to address these emerging requirements. We
examine the data access and storage requirements of a Job Centric Monitoring
(JCM) service developed at the Grid Research Centre (GRC), and explain how
DataSeries could fulfill these requirements. We then explore the performance
of DataSeries for both the access and storage requirements, using empirical
data to help us illustrate the tradeoffs that exist. As future work the GRC
intends to integrate DataSeries into the JCM service.
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Computer Science