Paper Info
Title
Synoptic: summarizing system logs with refinement
Abstract
Distributed systems are often difficult to debug and understand. A typical way of gaining insight into system behavior is by inspecting execution logs. However, manual inspection of logs is an arduous process. To support this task we developed Synoptic. Synoptic outputs a concise graph representation of logged events that captures temporal invariants mined from the log. We applied Synoptic to synthetic and real distributed system logs and found that it augmented a distributed system designer's understanding of system behavior with reasonable overhead for an offline analysis tool. In contrast to prior approaches, Synoptic uses a combination of refinement and coarsening to explore the space of representations. Additionally, it infers temporal event invariants to capture distributed system semantics. These invariants drive the exploration process and are satisfied by the final representation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1928991.1928995
SLAML
Keywords
Field
DocType
arduous process,temporal invariants,concise graph representation,final representation,system behavior,temporal event invariants,system log,exploration process,system semantics,system designer
Data mining,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Offline analysis,Invariant (mathematics),Semantics,Graph (abstract data type),Debugging
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.61
30
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sigurd Schneider11104.38
Ivan Beschastnikh266543.49
Slava Chernyak390.95
Michael D. Ernst46629347.51
Yuriy Brun5221691.89