Performance Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis for Cloud-hosted Web Applications
Hiranya Jayathilaka, Chandra Krintz, Rich Wolski · 2017
In this paper, we describe Roots - a system for automatically identifying the "root cause" of performance anomalies in web applications deployed in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) clouds. Roots does not require application-level instrumentation. Instead, it tracks events within the PaaS cloud that are triggered by application requests using a combination of metadata injection and platform-level instrumentation.