The internal behavior of large-scale software systems cannot be determined on the basis of static (e.g., source code) analysis alone. Kieker provides complementary dynamic analysis capabilities, i.e., monitoring and analyzing a software system’s runtime behavior — enabling Application Performance Monitoring and Architecture Discovery.
We are pleased to share our new publication “Benchmarking the Overhead of Distributed Tracing Agents” (https://doi.org/10.1145/3777884.3797004, preprint) in the proceedings of 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (homepage). We used MooBench to measure and compare the overhead of distributed tracing agents, and Kieker’s Java agent has shown 1.38 us (Binary file) and 1.55 us (Binary TCP), which incur the minimum overhead among the compared tracing agents. Our root cause analysis using flamegraph has revealed which method calls are responsible to the overhead.
The 16th Symposium on Software Performance (SSP ’25) was held from November 3 to 5, 2025 in Kiel, Germany, which is now the second time SSP held in Kiel since 2016. Every year, the SSP brings together researchers and practitioners … Continue reading
The Kieker Observability Framework Version 2 is now available on the SPEC RG Tools repository. Lots of thanks to all Kieker developers and contributors from communities who made the new release possible!
