Monitoring of Riak CS Storage Infrastructure

Riak CS (Cloud Storage) is open source object storage cloud service used by platforms, like, Eucalyptus and CloudStack. To efficiently manage the services, there is a need to provide increased visibility into storage infrastructure. There exists significant research on ways of monitoring cloud; however, little is discussed about what should be monitored. In this paper, we identify parameters that need to be monitored for storage infrastructure of Riak CS. We identify processes and their parameters that need to be monitored, also justify need for same. The proposed list is applied to some existing monitoring tools. Also, monitoring list presented here results in paradigm shift from identifying monitoring requirement a new every time to selecting features from list.