Adaptive monitoring: a framework to adapt passive monitoring using probing

Abstract

Effective use of monitoring tools demands an understanding of monitoring requirements which system administrators most often lack. In this paper, we propose to replace today's ad-hoc, manual, intuition-based approach with a more systematic, automated, and analytics-based approach for system monitoring. We propose an adaptive monitoring framework where end-to-end probing-based solutions are used to adapt the at-a-point monitoring tools. We present a systematic framework to use probes for adjusting monitoring levels and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution using real-world examples as well as simulations.