The proliferation of services and service interactions within microservices and cloud-native
applications, makes it harder to detect failures and to identify their possible root causes …

In order to meet stringent performance requirements, system administrators must effectively
detect undesirable performance behaviours, identify potential root causes, and take …

Modern society is increasingly moving toward complex and distributed computing systems.
The increase in scale and complexity of these systems challenges O&M teams that perform …

Surprisingly, console logs rarely help operators detect problems in large-scale datacenter
services, for they often consist of the voluminous intermixing of messages from many …

Diagnosis and correction of performance issues in modern, large-scale distributed systems
can be a daunting task, since a single developer is unlikely to be familiar with the entire …

Many large-scale software systems must service thousands or millions of concurrent
requests. These systems must be load tested to ensure that they can function correctly under …

Software logging is a conventional programming practice. While its efficacy is often
important for users and developers to understand what have happened in the production …

Computer systems often fail due to many factors such as software bugs or administrator
errors. Diagnosing such production run failures is an important but challenging task since it …

Diagnosing software failures in the field is notoriously difficult, in part due to the fundamental
complexity of troubleshooting any complex software system, but further exacerbated by the …

Contemporary datacenters comprise hundreds or thousands of machines running
applications requiring high availability and responsiveness. Although a performance crisis is …