SyMon is Synelixis modern monitoring framework that satisfies the most demanding requirements related to SDN/NFV-based service deployment in public, private or hybrid cloud environments. Compliant with European and International standards, e.g. ETSI NFV MANO framework, SyMon provides real-time data collection and alert notifications based on preselected or user-defined metrics for monitoring the service performance during its whole lifecycle.
Moreover, SyMon provides administrators with all the information they need to manage their day-to-day operations, optimize the utilization of cloud resources and receive alerts addressing the issue of dynamic deployment of virtual network services and functions in heterogeneous cloud-based environments.
In order to cope with different needs, Synelixis SyMon provides a plethora of predefined network, memory and computing metrics, while the list can be easily augmented in case of a service-specific metric.
In order to cope with different needs, Synelixis SyMon provides a plethora of predefined network, memory and computing metrics, while the list can be easily augmented in case of a service-specific metric.
How it Works
SyMon framework enables real time collection of critical performance data not only on network but also on computation and storage resources. This is achieved through the automated installation of lightweight probes in applications or services, instantiated either in Virtual Machines or LXC/LXD containers (regardless of the operating systems and hypervisors). The data are sent to the SyMon monitoring engine for further processing and user notification, in case rules are violated or thresholds are exceeded. Notifications can be provided via synchronous and asynchronous channels (i.e. email, SMS, web access, subscription to message brokers).
What you gain
Compared to other monitoring solutions, SyMon offers the following advantages:
 Collect performance metrics in services running on VMs/LXC/LXD. |
 Monitor also your cloud infrastructure performance. |
 Leverage your data analytics potential. |
 Enhance your cloud and network performance. |
 Retrieve relational information based on historical data. |
 Define complex alerting rules. |
Easy to integrate, get quick time to market
Responding to customers’ demands for short time to market products,
SyMon has been developed in a flexible manner in order to minimize
installation and integration in any working environment.
 Support of heterogeneous cloud environments & emerging technologies. |
 Run-time instantiation & reconfiguration of monitoring metrics and alerting rules. |
 Easy configuration of monitoring probes via scripts or graphical user interface. |
 Persistent data storage in state-of-the-art time-series databases. |
 Support both push and pullmodels for monitoring data collection. |
 Alert notifications via synchronous and asynchronous channels. |
Deal with the dynamic instantiation of services
In the current landscape, services and applications are instantiated, suspended or deleted rapidly, while in hybrid clouds there is a need for service migration and scaling. Moreover from the Service Level Agreement (SLA) point of view, there is often the need to combine metrics from more than one virtual functions comprising a service. SyMon meets all these requirements, providing a monitoring framework that allows developers to monitor service (lifecycle) performance and platform administrators to optimize resource utilization.
