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EXIST: Enabling Extremely Efficient Intra-Service Tracing Observability in Datacenters

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The complexity of online applications is rapidly increasing, bringing more sophisticated performance anomalies in today's cloud datacenter. To fully understand application behaviors, we should obtain both inter-service communication data via RPC-level tracing and intra-service execution traces via application-level tracing to precisely reason about event causality. However, the average time overhead of existing intra-service tracing schemes on the traced applications is generally about 5-10%, possibly reaching 18% in the worst case. To realize practical intra-service tracing in shared and stressed datacenters, one must achieve extreme tracing efficiency with an overhead at the per-mille level.

Source: ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)

DOI: 10.1145/3676641.3716283

Authors: Xinkai Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Yuancheng Li, Du Liu, Guoyao Xu, Guodong Yang, Liping Zhang, Yuemin Wu, Xiaopeng Yuan, Quan Chen, Minyi Guo

Institutions: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Alibaba Group (China)

Language: English

Topic: Software System Performance and Reliability

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4408893327

FWCI: 6.656

Cites: 56

Cited by: 5

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