MicroCM: A cloud monitoring architecture for microservice invocation

Abstract

In the complex operating environment, it is difficult to find the root of the issue when there are some time-consuming or error performance issues when executing the request. Aiming at resolving the above challenge, this paper designs and implements a cloud monitoring architecture for microservice invocation MicroCM, by monitoring and tracking the service invocation procedure to get performance data of each link in the transaction request, so as to support the localization of the performance bottleneck in the microservice applications. The monitoring architecture covers the whole process from data acquisition, data transmission, data storage to data display. The monitoring system is designed and implemented according to the proposed cloud monitoring architecture. Finally, the monitoring system is applied to an actual case in this paper. It introduces the process of deployment and configuration of the monitoring system, and monitors a specific scene to verify the functionality implemented by the system. It also conducts a performance impact experiment for this monitoring system by using pressure testing. From the results, the monitoring system presents the process of transaction request executions completely and can locate the time-consuming performance issue effectively. In addition, the system generates low interference.