This paper presents a platform that aims at monitoring and analyzing large service-oriented applications executing on a very large scale. This is part of a vision of web-scale service utilization and management that is proposed by the SOA4All EU project. The paper shows how the platform obtains data from distributed runtimes and how it presents monitoring information at different levels of abstraction. They range from low-level infrastructure-related event details to high-level service and process analysis. Each level uses appropriate visualization techniques and widgets in order to convey the relevant information to the users in an efficient manner. The platform is under development and an advanced prototype is already available and described in the paper.

Abstract. Evolution in the telecommunications sector has led to companies within it providing APIs for their products and services, allowing others to build communication services into their own service offerings. In order to support mass adoption of this new approach, consumers of these APIs (many of which are RESTful) must be supported by a reduction in the complexity involved with describing, finding, composing and invoking them. Existing efforts to provide automation have, in general, focused on WSDL services rather than REST services. The paper explores the approach of the SOA4All project in supporting interaction with REST services which is being applied in a telecommunications focused case study.

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