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Log20: Fully Automated Optimal Placement of Log Printing Statements under Specified Overhead Threshold

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Kirk Rodrigues,

Yuanyuan ZhouAuthors Info & Claims

SOSP '17: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Pages 565 - 581

https://doi.org/10.1145/3132747.3132778

Published: 14 October 2017 Publication History

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When systems fail in production environments, log data is often the only information available to programmers for postmortem debugging. Consequently, programmers' decision on where to place a log printing statement is of crucial importance, as it directly affects how effective and efficient postmortem debugging can be. This paper presents Log20, a tool that determines a near optimal placement of log printing statements under the constraint of adding less than a specified amount of performance overhead. Log20 does this in an automated way without any human involvement. Guided by information theory, the core of our algorithm measures how effective each log printing statement is in disambiguating code paths. To do so, it uses the frequencies of different execution paths that are collected from a production environment by a low-overhead tracing library. We evaluated Log20 on HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, and ZooKeeper, and observed that Log20 is substantially more efficient in code path disambiguation compared to the developers' manually placed log printing statements. Log20 can also output a curve showing the trade-off between the informativeness of the logs and the performance slowdown, so that a developer can choose the right balance.

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Log20: Fully Automated Optimal Placement of Log Printing Statements under Specified Overhead Threshold
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
    1. Reliability
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. System administration

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