Detecting large-scale system problems by mining console logs

W Xu, L Huang, A Fox, D Patterson… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Surprisingly, console logs rarely help operators detect problems in large-scale datacenter
services, for they often consist of the voluminous intermixing of messages from many …

[PDF][PDF] Automating configuration troubleshooting with dynamic information flow analysis

M Attariyan, J Flinn - 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems …, 2010 - usenix.org
Software misconfigurations are time-consuming and enormously frustrating to troubleshoot.
In this paper, we show that dynamic information flow analysis helps solve these problems by …

The making of cloud applications: An empirical study on software development for the cloud

J Cito, P Leitner, T Fritz, HC Gall - Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Cloud computing is gaining more and more traction as a deployment and provisioning
model for software. While a large body of research already covers how to optimally operate …

Software architecture definition for on-demand cloud provisioning

C Chapman, W Emmerich, FG Márquez… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Cloud computing [23] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud
computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate …

[PDF][PDF] Largescale system problem detection by mining console logs

W Xu, L Huang, A Fox, D Patterson, M Jordan - Proceedings of SOSP, 2009 - Citeseer
Surprisingly, console logs rarely help operators detect problems in large-scale datacenter
services, for they often consist of the voluminous intermixing of messages from many …

Automated diagnosis of software misconfigurations based on static analysis

Z Dong, M Ghanavati… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software configuration settings are an effective way to customize applications. However,
inconsistencies or mistakes in option values can result in a system crash and need huge …

Range fixes: Interactive error resolution for software configuration

Y Xiong, H Zhang, A Hubaux, S She… - Ieee transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To prevent ill-formed configurations, highly configurable software often allows defining
constraints over the available options. As these constraints can be complex, fixing a …

Automated diagnosis of software configuration errors

S Zhang, MD Ernst - 2013 35th International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The behavior of a software system often depends on how that system is configured. Small
configuration errors can lead to hard-to-diagnose undesired behaviors. We present a …

Practical and accurate pinpointing of configuration errors using static analysis

Z Dong, A Andrzejak, K Shao - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software misconfigurations are responsible for a substantial part of today's system failures,
causing about one-quarter of all customer-reported issues. Identifying their root causes can …

Analyzing infrastructure as code to prevent intra-update sniping vulnerabilities

J Lepiller, R Piskac, M Schäf, M Santolucito - … TACAS 2021, Held as Part of …, 2021 - Springer
Infrastructure as Code is a new approach to computing infrastructure management that
allows users to leverage tools such as version control, automatic deployments, and program …