Advances and challenges in log analysis

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 55-61

  Oliner, Adam ^a   Ganapathi, Archana ^a   Xu, Wei ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL SYNCHRONIZATION; LOG ANALYSIS; MULTI-THREADED SYSTEM;

WELL LOGGING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84863395085     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2076450.2076466     Document Type: Article

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