Modeling Systems from Logs of their Behavior
Date
July 18, 2013
Speaker
Ivan Beschastnikh
Affiliation
University of British Columbia
Series
Overview
Logged messages are invaluable for debugging and diagnosing problems. Unfortunately, many execution logs are inscrutable in their raw form. For example, a production Google system may generate a billion-line log file in a single day. In my talk, I will detail two log-analysis tools that I developed to deal with this problem. These tools infer concise and precise models from large execution logs of sequential and distributed systems. Both tools enable new kinds of program analyses and make logs more useful to developers. For example, my empirical experiments show that developers find the inferred models useful for identifying bugs, confirming bugs that were previously known, and increasing their confidence in their implementations.
Speakers
Ivan Beschastnikh
Ivan Beschastnikh is a final-year PhD student at the University of Washington working with Tom Anderson, Michael D. Ernst, and Arvind Krishnamurthy. His research aim is to improve the design, implementation, and operation of large systems by using techniques from the areas of systems and software engineering.
