pivot tracing

  • Pivot Tracing Part 2

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    After looking more at Pivot Tracing tool described in my earlier post, I asked myself about the limitations of such monitoring approach. Pivot tracing is not a universal tool, so it appears that there are few problems it does not address well enough. The basic idea of the Pivot Tracing is to collect the information…

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  • Review – Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems

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    Debugging can be a nightmare for software engineers, it is even more so in the distributed systems that span many machines in potentially more than one datacenter. Unfortunately, many of the debugging and monitoring techniques for such large system do not differ much from the methods used to debug and monitor simple single-machine software. Logs…

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