  5G is being designed as a common platform where multiple vertical
applications will be able to co-exist and grow in a seamless manner. The
diversity of the vertical requirements as well as the particular features of
the 5G network itself, make it a real challenge to be able to assess or predict
applications performance for those verticals. In this paper we motivate the
fact that because of the very nature of verticals and 5G infrastructure,
measurements alone will not be sufficient for application performance
monitoring and prediction. We then propose a comprehensive framework to
integrate those measurements in a simulation setting, presenting the key
features and current roadblocks for an end-to-end wide-spread implementation.
