SysProf: Online distributed behavior diagnosis through fine-grain system monitoring

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 8-15

  Agarwala, Sandip ^a   Schwan, Karsten ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION); WEBSITES;

MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; REAL-TIME RESPONSE; RUNTIME MONITORING; SINGLE SYSTEM CALL;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947665011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2006.81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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