Dynamically adapting cloud applications

A method of dynamically adapting a cloud application, the method comprising:

• detecting a current value of a key performance indicator (KPI) of an executing cloud service instance of a cloud application, the cloud application hosted by a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, the KPI corresponding to a service level agreement (SLA) between a provider of the cloud application and a user of the cloud application, the cloud service instance having a service type;
• determining whether the current value of the KPI is outside of an acceptable range;
• and
• upon determining the current value of the KPI is outside of an acceptable range, using a cascading application programming interface (API) calling structure provided by the PaaS provider to invoke a first API call and successive API calls based on the cascading API calling structure, the first API call to request a cloud service instance monitor of the cloud service instance to adapt the cloud service instance to operate within the acceptable range.

At least one machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

• detect a current value of a key performance indicator (KPI) of an executing cloud service instance of a cloud application, the cloud application hosted by a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, the KPI corresponding to a service level agreement (SLA) between a provider of the cloud application and a user of the cloud application, the cloud service instance having a service type;
• determine whether the current value of the KPI is outside of an acceptable range;
• and
• upon a determination that the current value of the KPI is outside of an acceptable range, use a cascading application programming interface (API) calling structure provided by the PaaS provider to invoke a first API call and successive API calls based on the cascading API calling structure, the first API call to request a cloud service instance monitor of the cloud service instance to adapt the cloud service instance to operate within the acceptable range.