The monitoring tool capabilities

 The cloud paradigm brings the much-needed flexibility of assigning resources needed to support demand from cloud users. Establishing and enforcing appropriate policies and rules are important for assigning cloud resources to business applications and IT services. However, the effectiveness of policy management depends on the visibility that organizations have about their cloud resources. Organizations need to have the capability to create, modify, monitor, and update the policies. In short, cloud monitoring tools need to have the previously mentioned cloud-specific features, functionalities, and facilities to realize all the cloud-sponsored benefits.

As organizations deploying cloud computing services trust third-party providers to fulfil the quality of service (QoS) attributes and performance, as quoted previously, is the key QoS parameter. The monitoring tool has to monitor not only the actual levels of performance, as experienced by business users, but...