MICE: Monitoring high-level events in cloud environments

The concept of Cloud Computing illustrates a convenient model employed by many companies in order to facilitate quick access to a group of easy-to-setup computing resources. With businesses depending on the availability of the acquired resources, Service Level Agreements (SLA) guarantees a certain degree of quality in terms of availability, performance and cost. To design a reliable monitoring framework from scratch, a certain amount of knowledge is required on various system parameters. Our solution, the MICE Project, was designed to offer a performance overview of the high-level events occurring in a regular browsing session and also providing a logging framework regarding browsing behaviors, interests, habits and time expenditures. MICE was primarily targeted for Google Chrome users, and can be deployed on any operating system, offering an interface for displaying stored events to administrators and clients, with respect towards privacy and confidentiality. This software implementation can be used in different areas of interest, in order to further enhance available data, or to provide the building blocks of the next-generation of distributed search engines.