The live demo covers some relevant aspects of managing and monitoring applications in OpenStack. The presentations given included the main issues related to: the effective management of applications in the cloud infrastructure, an overview of the main OpenStack services from the infrastructure provider and application owner points of view and CloudWave project results with particular regards to monitoring infrastructure and visualization tools. The CloudWave-enhanced version of OpenStack was analyzed, showing how it provides a unique way to collect data coming from different sources (e.g., infrastructure, application) and how it is able to improve the management of the cloud environment.
