Online Reconstruction of Structural Information from Datacenter Logs
Zaheer Chothia, John Liagouris, Desislava Dimitrova, Timothy Roscoe · 2017
Well-run datacenter application architectures are heavily instrumented to provide detailed traces of messages and remote invocations. Reconstructing user sessions, call graphs, transaction trees, and other structural information from these messages, a process known as sessionization, is the foundation for a variety of diagnostic, profiling, and monitoring tasks essential to the operation of the datacenter.