Monitoring Architecture for Cloud Computing Environments Based on Consistent Hashing

• Augusto dos Santos G. Vaz UFSCar http://orcid.org/0009-0001-1682-6267
• Hélio Crestana Guardia UFSCar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5010-747X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wgrs.2025.8870

Abstract

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing business model that offers on demand IT solutions with a low initial financial investment. As cloud providers must maintain strict Quality of Service, effective monitoring systems become critical. This paper presents Prometheus Ring, a distributed monitoring architecture leveraging consistent hashing to ensure high availability and elastic scalability for dynamic cloud environments. The solution is validated through Synthetic Exporter, a custom metric generation system that simulates production-scale workloads. Experimental results demonstrate the architecture’s ability to maintain monitoring continuity under heavy load with minimal downtime, demonstrating a good fit for cloud providers.

Keywords: Monitoring, Cloud Computing, High Availability, Scalability

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