Call for Participation in OSLC Performance Monitoring Community Group

W3C has launched the OSLC Performance Monitoring Community Group

The goal of this effort is to define a common set of resources, formats and RESTful services for the use in monitoring products and use by lifecycle tools, such as operations, applications, and product. The need for this workgroup is further driven by web operations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_operations .
Monitoring resources define the data about entities like applications, computer systems, storage volumes, etc. commonly used to observe a coarse-grained summary of their state, e.g. their self-reported health. Some monitoring tools collect hundreds or more individual metrics about a range of resources, it is NOT our intent to reproduce that work in all its richness and detail. Only the subset needed to satisfy the in-scope scenarios will be included in the resource definitions, i.e. the subset that most/all tools would be able to provide and that participants can readily agree on. The approach will be to define a small number of tightly constrained scenarios, address those by drafting specifications, collect implementation experience using those drafts, and then close (finalize) those specifications. This will decrease the barrier to sharing monitored data across multiple vendors and tools as part of the Operations Lifecycle. Future iterations of that process may be used to address additional scenarios and resource types.

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team