METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE MONITORING OF VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

A method monitors machine activity of multiple virtual computing devices operating through at least one physical computing device by running a monitoring agent. The method measures simple operating characteristics of only a base level virtual computing device and monitors complex operating characteristics by measuring the characteristics for each virtual computing device, recording the operating characteristics of each virtual computing device on a corresponding memory page of each virtual computing device, and sharing each the corresponding memory page with the base level virtual computing device through an interdomain communications channels to transfer the complex operating characteristics to the monitoring agent. The method identifies and outputs simple events and complex events for each of the multiple virtual computing devices by evaluating the simple operating characteristics and the complex operating characteristics.