BorderPatrol: Isolating events for black-box tracing

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 191-203

  Koskinen, Eric ^a   Jannotti, John ^a  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

Black box systems; Causal paths; Distributed systems; Performance analysis; Performance debugging

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; BLACK BOX SYSTEM; BLACK BOX TRACING; CAUSAL PATHS; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EVENT DRIVEN; EVENT STREAMS; MANUAL INSTRUMENTATIONS; PERFORMANCE DEBUGGING; POSTGRESQL; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; REAL SYSTEMS; RUNTIMES; STANDARD PROTOCOLS; WEB SERVERS;

INSTRUMENTS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NETWORK SECURITY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952262887     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357010.1352613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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