A comprehensive monitoring framework for virtual computing environment

Virtualization can divide or aggregate the underlying resource flexibly, and it attracts attention from both academic and industry in recent years. Guest operating systems in virtual machines can be various, and the states of virtual machines changes all the time. Due to the complexity of virtual computing environment, it brings tremendous challenges for security monitoring. Existing monitoring mechanism can not adapt to the dynamic and diversity of virtual machines. Therefore, a comprehensive monitoring framework, named ComMon, is proposed in this paper, which implements comprehensive monitoring from three aspects: network, process, and file. It has the characteristics of real-time, transparency and generality.