Hubble : a platform for developing apps that manage cloud applications and analyze their performance

Abstract

The ability to deliver computing as a metered service has made the cloud an attractive platform for deployment of applications. Using the cloud, enterprises experience a decrease in maintenance overhead, faster deployment, and that cloud elasticity can be exploited to meet fluctuating resource demands.

This thesis presents Hubble, a platform for developing apps that manage cloud applications and analyze their performance. Hubble provides apps with support for persistent storage of performance data, creating secure channels for communication with cloud instrumentation and management software, and interfaces to aid with analytical computations on performance data.

We present and evaluate several apps that have been developed for Hubble. These provide functionality spanning from retrieval of performance data, visualization of performance, and management of cloud services.