Research Article

FMonE: A Flexible Monitoring Solution at the Edge

Figure 4

The different concepts that form a monitoring pipeline. A pipeline takes care of one or more regions of the fog infrastructure. Additionally it may have several back-ends. A set of one or more FMonE agents is launched in each region. These agents have three components to gather the metrics: InPlugin to collect data, Midplugin to process it, and OutPlugin to publish it.