Paper
2010
Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
Benjamin H. Sigelman et al.
Shows how to trace a request across hundreds of services with low overhead, and is the ancestor of every tracing tool since.
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Groundwork for
Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.
- Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed SystemsJonathan Mace, Ryan Roelke & Rodrigo Fonseca, 2015Lets operators define new cross-component metrics at runtime by piggybacking on causal tracing, instead of committing in advance to a fixed set of instrumented statistics.
- Canopy: An End-to-End Performance Tracing And Analysis SystemJonathan Kaldor et al., 2017Argues that raw trace collection is worthless without a pipeline for cleaning, aggregating and modelling it, and describes the system built to make traces answerable to arbitrary later questions.
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