This feature of PCMONS is found in few other monitoring tools surveyed here.
CloudSense [75] is a data centre monitoring tool which, unlike other tools surveyed here, operates at the switching level.
Many of the tools surveyed here are not complete solutions, rather they provide part of the monitoring process.
Unlike the vast majority of monitoring tools surveyed here, GMondE provides monitoring services to both cloud providers and cloud users.
The notion of a framework for building monitoring tools is a novel break from the other tools surveyed in this paper.
Section 'Monitoring as a service tools' surveys a monitoring as a service tools, a recent development which abstracts much of the complexity of monitoring away from the user.
Rather than being a monitoring system, sFlow is a protocol for encoding and transmitting monitoring data which makes it unique amongst the other tools surveyed here.
Consumer insight is critical to our industry's success and whilst we can use tools, surveys and research there is a nuance of consumer insight that can be best gained through multiple experiences in the room.
For instance, one can use tools surveyed in this work to search for experts on a specific topic or to visualize search results in networks.
This work is the Poet (personal outcomes evaluation tool) survey.
This is also highlighted in the third Poet (personal outcomes evaluation tool) survey (pdf) reported by user organisation In Control in 2015.
