An Observation-Based Approach to Performance Characterization of Distributed n-Tier Applications

Pu, Calton; Sahai, Akhil; Parekh, Jason; Jung, Gueyoung; Bae, Jong Hoa; Cha, You-Kyung; García, Tomás Ayora; Irani, Dariush; Lee, Jae; Lin, Qifeng

doi:10.1109/iiswc.2007.4362192

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“…Because this approach depends mostly on experiential and cognitive knowledge, it yields high accuracy in detecting known and unknown anomalies. This however, makes it di cult to implement in real-time real time systems because the experiential knowledge of right thresholds, transient anomaly behaviours have to be encoded into an automatic mechanism [ [78]; [53]; [79]]. …”

Section: Observational Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Anomaly Detection and Bottleneck Identification

2015

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In order to meet stringent performance requirements, system administrators must e↵ectively detect undesirable performance behaviours, identify potential root causes and take adequate corrective measures. The problem of uncovering and understanding performance anomalies and their causes (bottlenecks) in di↵erent system and application domains is well studied. In order to assess progress, research trends and identify open challenges, we have reviewed major contributions in the area and present our findings in this survey. Our approach provides an overview of anomaly detection and bottleneck identification research as it relates to the performance of computing systems. By identifying fundamental elements of the problem, we are able to categorize existing solutions based on multiple factors such as the detection goals, nature of applications and systems, system observability, and detection methods.

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Section: Observational Detectionmentioning

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Performance Anomaly Detection and Bottleneck Identification

2015

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“…One way to ensure that applications meet their performance target or threshold is by performing application-level configuration management. As illustrated in [6], different configuration (w-a-d, where w is the number of web servers, a is the number of application servers, and d is the number of database servers) of the application have different bottlenecks. In this particular code, when the number of users increase, the bottleneck is typically determined to be in a (the number of application servers).…”

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“…• Second, bursts can result in bottlenecks in certain processing components, as with the multi-tier web applications considered in our work, where the bottleneck incurred by bursts typically resides in their application server components [6].…”

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A cyber-physical integrated system for application performance and energy management in data centers

Chen¹,

Xiong

Schwan

et al. 2012

2012 International Green Computing Conference (IGCC)

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Both performance and energy cost are important concerns for current data center operators. Traditionally, however, IT and mechanical engineers have separately optimized the cyber vs. physical aspects of data center operations. In contrast, the work presented in this paper jointly considers both the IT -cyber -and the physical systems in data centers, the eventual goal being to develop performance and power management techniques that holistically operate to control the entire complex of data center installations. Toward this end, we propose a balance of payments model for holistic power and performance management. As an example of coordinated data center management system, the energy-aware cyber-physical system (EaCPS) uses an application controller on the cyber side to guarantee application performance, and on the physical side, it utilizes electric current-aware capacity management (CACM) to smartly place executables to reduce the energy consumption of each chassis present in a data center rack. A web application, representative of a multi-tier web site, is used to evaluate the performance of the controller on the cyber side, the CACM control on the physical side, and of the holistic EaCPS methods in a mid-size, instrumented data center. Results indicate that coordinated EaCPS outperforms the cyber and physical control modules working separately.

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“…In our experiments the write ratio is extended adding additional variability as explained in [6]. We utilize the bidding transition as well as neighboring write ratios of 10% and 20% in our evaluation since these transitions are better representatives of an auction site workload [2] and provide a more accurate picture [6]. Our system reuses and extends a recent version of RUBiS from ObjectWeb [13].…”

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“…RUBiS provides two workload transition matrices describing two different user behaviors: a browsing transition consisting of read-only interactions and a bidding transition, including 15% write interactions. In our experiments the write ratio is extended adding additional variability as explained in [6]. We utilize the bidding transition as well as neighboring write ratios of 10% and 20% in our evaluation since these transitions are better representatives of an auction site workload [2] and provide a more accurate picture [6].…”

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Bottleneck Detection Using Statistical Intervention Analysis

Malkowski

Hedwig

Parekh

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The complexity of today's large-scale enterprise applications demands system administrators to monitor enormous amounts of metrics, and reconfigure their hardware as well as software at run-time without thorough understanding of monitoring results. The Elba project is designed to achieve an automated iterative staging to mitigate the risk of violating Service Level Objectives (SLOs). As part of Elba we undertake performance characterization of system to detect bottlenecks in their configurations. In this paper, we introduce our concrete bottleneck detection approach used in Elba, and then show its robustness and accuracy in various configurations scenarios. We utilize a wellknown benchmark application, RUBiS (Rice University Bidding System), to evaluate the classifier with respect to successful identification of different bottlenecks.

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An Observation-Based Approach to Performance Characterization of Distributed n-Tier Applications

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Performance Anomaly Detection and Bottleneck Identification

Performance Anomaly Detection and Bottleneck Identification

A cyber-physical integrated system for application performance and energy management in data centers

Bottleneck Detection Using Statistical Intervention Analysis

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