Technologies for independent service level agreement monitoring

One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed cause a network functions virtualization (NFV) service level agreement (SLA) controller to:

• manage an initialization of a plurality of SLA agents in one or more network processing components of the end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture based on an SLA policy, wherein the SLA policy identifies one or more performance benchmarks, and wherein each of the one or more performance benchmarks indicate an expected quality of service level associated with processing network traffic through the end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture;
• provide telemetry data monitoring instructions to each of the initialized SLA agents based on the one or more performance benchmarks, wherein the generated telemetry data monitoring instructions are usable to determine which types of telemetry data to monitor;
• receive telemetry data from each of the initialized SLA agents based on the provided telemetry data monitoring instructions;
• analyze, by an SLA analysis engine in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the NFV SLA controller, the received telemetry data;
• determine one or more performance metrics based on the analysis, wherein the one or more determined performance metrics identify measurable characteristics of the received telemetry data;
• compare one or more of the one or more performance benchmarks to a corresponding one or more of the determined performance metrics;
• generate an SLA report that includes a result of the comparison of the one or more of the one or more performance benchmarks and the determined performance metrics;
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• transmit the generated SLA report to a target receiving component of the end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture.

A network functions virtualization (NFV) service level agreement (SLA) controller for monitoring SLA performance in an end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture that includes the NFV SLA controller, the NFV SLA controller comprising:

• means for managing an initialization of a plurality of SLA agents in one or more network processing components of the end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture based on an SLA policy, wherein the SLA policy identifies one or more performance benchmarks, and wherein each of the one or more performance benchmarks indicate an expected quality of service level associated with processing network traffic through the end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture;
• means for providing telemetry data monitoring instructions to each of the initialized SLA agents based on the one or more performance benchmarks, wherein the generated telemetry data monitoring instructions are usable to determine which types of telemetry data to monitor;
• means for receiving telemetry data from each of the initialized SLA agents based on the provided telemetry data monitoring instructions;
• means for analyzing, in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the NFV SLA controller, the received telemetry data;
• means for determining one or more performance metrics based on the analysis, wherein the one or more determined performance metrics identify measurable characteristics of the received telemetry data;
• means for comparing one or more of the one or more performance benchmarks to a corresponding one or more of the determined performance metrics;
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• an SLA report generation circuit to (i) generate an SLA report that includes results of the comparison of the one or more of the one or more performance benchmarks and the one or more performance metrics and (ii) transmit the generated SLA report to a target receiving component of the end-to-end SLA monitoring architecture.