Abstract
Monitoring is an essential part of many program development tools, and plays a central role in debugging, optimization, status reporting, and reconfiguration. Traditional monitoring techniques are inadequate when monitoring complex systems such as multiprocessors or distributed systems. A new approach is described in which a historical database forms the conceptual basis for the information processed by the monitor. This approach permits advances in specifying the low-level data collection, specifying the analysis of the collected data, performing the analysis, and displaying the results. Two prototype implementations demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 157-195 |
Number of pages | 39 |
Journal | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 1988 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Graphical monitoring
- TQuel
- historical database
- relational algebra
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science