2014-08-06

Owned by Andre van Hoorn
Last updated: Jan 20, 2016
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Meeting Wed, August 06, 2014 @ 10:00-11:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

List of Participants

  • Andre van Hoorn
  • Jan Waller
  • Reiner Jung
  • Karsten Schirmick (Geomar)

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

  • J.Waller: Meta-Monitoring of Kieker (scheduled for next meeting)
  • C. Zirkelbach [15-20 min]: Eprints monitoring/analysis with Kieker (cancelled; postponed to next meeting?)
  • Please make suggestions for possible presentations in future meetings!

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

  • ...

b. Upcoming

  • Kieker/SLAstic talk RG DevOps Performance WG on Aug 22, 2014

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

  • Kieker 1.10 scheduled for Oct 1, 2014

4. Status of Current Activities

> MISC

a. Web Site/Trac

  • Live demo updates
  • Blog
    • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
    • Blog entry on RSS development project -> #1272 (Thomas)
    • Blog entry on Eprints by C. Zirkelbach?
  • Page for teaching activities #1102
  • Update of features page (+ figures in presentations), suggestions Willi:
    • Data Bridge + DiSL probe (Probes/Samplers)
    • Binary monitoring writers/readers (Writers/Readers)
    • TSLib, OPAD (Performance Analysis)
    • Coloring, Trace Analysis GUI (Architecture reconstruction)
    • ExplorViz (Architecture Reconstruction)

b. Web GUI

  • Roadmap -> towards an Open APM Tool?
  • Cockpit/Display concept
  • Web cast?
  • Feature wish: built-in support for APM, profiling etc. (example projects?)

c. TeeTime as P&F framework

  • ...

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects/Collaborations

  • PubFlow
  • iObserve
  • Ensure
  • Hora
  • diagnoseIT
  • RG DevOps Performance WG
    • Fri July 8, 2014 (15:00-16:00 CEST): Talk on LIMBO workload modeling (N. Herbst, U Wuerzburg)
    • ...
  • Collaboration on AIM (dynamic/adaptive instrumentation)
  • EPrints

Study Theses

  • Recently completed (since last meeting):
    • Please include recently completed theses here and announce them via the kieker-research list
    • ...
  • Running:
    • jwe: "Delphi intrumentation" (Dipl)
    • ??: <Theses supervised by pcb>
    • A. Flaig: Dynamic instrumentation/adaptive monitoring using runtime bytecode engineering with Kieker (BSc)
  • Upcoming:

Student Projects

  • Recently completed (since last meeting):
    • Please include recently completed projects here and announce them via the kieker-research list
    • ...
  • Upcoming:
    • ...

6. Descartes/Kieker/Palladio Days 2014

  •  http://www.kieker-palladio-days.org/
  • Submission deadline for proposals for contributions: Aug 22, 2014
  • Dates:
    • Internal meeting: Nov Wed 26, 2014 (afternoon) -> Need approx. number of participants
    • Main program: Nov, Thu 27 (morning!) to Fri 28, 2014 (around noon)
  • Venue (NovaTec GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen; near Stuttgart airport)
  • Possible contributions from Kieker
  • Ideas list
  • Web site updates: About page to be updated

7. Misc

  • Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

Topics for future meetings

  • Reiner (monitoring C programs)
  • Christian, Nils (restructuring analysis (asynchronous; buffers), (not)use of EMF for analysis configurations) -> Kieker/Palladio Days?
  • Create SIGs?
    • e.g., to coordinate/consolidate distributed efforts on common topics)
    • They may be permanent or temporary
    • Example SIGs
      • Kieker.APM
        • Web UI
        • Anomaly detection
        • Distributed tracing
        • Adaptive instrumentation
        • Self-*
      • Benchmarking
      • Performance testing (incl. CI env.)
      • Model extraction/architecture discovery
      • Visualization
      • Usability
      • Analysis framework
      • Model-driven instrumentation and analysis
      • ...
    • Could associate tickets with SIGs
    • Trac/Web site for SIG with roadmap w.r.t. planned Kieker features in this area
    • May include non-Kieker associates which are specialists in this field