Our new quickstart guides for Kieker demonstrate how to easily monitor and analyze Java applications with Kieker. Our first guide introduces Kieker from the command-line. The second guide demonstrates Kieker with Eclipse. Note, that the guides are written for the upcoming Kieker 1.9 release as well as for our current nightly builds.

Out of the 20 posters that were presented during the poster/demo session on Tuesday at the ICPE 2014 in Dublin, ours has been elected as the best poster. The election was conducted during the poster session by the attendees of the presentations by putting stickers on posters that were counted afterwards.
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At the ​5th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2014), we gave a 2-hour tutorial. The slides and instructions for the interactive parts, are publicly available:

1. Slides: http://eprints.uni-kiel.de/23928/  (including handout version)
2. Instructions for interactive parts: http://trac.kieker-monitoring.net/wiki/tutorials/201403icpe/

Just in time for the Software Engineering 2014 (SE 2014) we finished a new Kieker poster. Feel free to use it in order to advertise for Kieker!

Tom Frotscher wins the 2013 Software & Systems Engineering Award (b+m SSEP) for his Master’s thesis on “Architecture-Based Multivariate Anomaly Detection for Software Systems”. Since 2011, the annual b+m SSEP jury elects an excellent thesis submitted to the Kiel University’s Computer Science Department based on scientific quality and practical relevance . Tom’s thesis, supervised jointly by the Universities in Kiel and Stuttgart, extends the initial work on Kieker’s Online Performance Anomaly Detection (OPAD) approach by Tillmann Bielefeld who received the b+m SSEP in 2012. Tom’s thesis was again conducted in close collaboration with Xing AG, whose well-known  business networking platform served as the case study system. Continue reading →

The  Symposium on Software Performance: Joint Kieker/Palladio Days 2013, which took place November 27-29 (Wed-Fri), 2013 in Karlsruhe, Germany, brought together  researchers and practitioners interested in all facets of software performance, ranging  from modeling and prediction to monitoring and management. The symposium was  organized by two already established user groups: for the first time, the Kieker and the  Palladio communities had a joint meeting in form of this symposium. Kieker is a  well-established tool and approach for monitoring software performance of complex, large,  and distributed IT systems. Palladio is a likewise-established tool and approach for  modeling software architectures of IT systems and for simulating their performance.  However, contributions were not limited to these two communities but we also welcomed  contributions from the field.

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Today, we released version 1.8 of our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis: https://kieker-monitoring.net/

• New features (selection)
  • Data Bridge: Facility to connect Kieker’s Java core with other platforms
  • New reader plugin that provides the current system time in regular intervals
  • New TCP writer and reader
  • Acceleration/slow-down factor for real-time replayer
• Minor changes to the record API
  • Additional method for binary (de)serialization
  • `TYPES` field now public
  • Many record types no longer `final` (eases custom extensions)
• Bug fixes and improvements to code, performance, tests, build scripts, documentation, examples
• Various improvements to the WebGUI (see separate `HISTORY` file)

For details and download see https://kieker-monitoring.net/

As a follow-up event of our very successful KoSSE-Symposium: Application Performance Management (Kieker Days 2012), the Symposium on Software Performance (Joint Kieker/Palladio Days 2013) will take place on November 27-29 (Wed-Fri), 2013 in Karlsruhe, Germany (FZI Forschungzentrum Informatik). It will be a joint annual meeting with the Palladio community.

Details are provided on the symposium web site: http://www.kieker-palladio-days.org/

As a follow-up event of our very successful KoSSE-Symposium: Application Performance Management (Kieker Days 2012), the Symposium on Software Performance (Joint Kieker/Palladio Days 2013) will take place on November 27-29 (Wed-Fri), 2013 in Karlsruhe, Germany (FZI Forschungzentrum Informatik). It will be a joint annual meeting with the Palladio community.

Save the date! Details will follow soon.

Symposium on Software Performance (Joint Kieker/Palladio Days 2013)
November 27-29 (Wed-Fri), 2013
FZI Forschungzentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
https://kieker-monitoring.net/kieker-palladio-days-2013/

Today, we released version 1.7 of our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis: https://kieker-monitoring.net/

• Major changes
  • Adaptive monitoring: extended set of (de)activation patterns to support adaptive monitoring for custom probes. Before: limited to (de)activate monitoring for operation signature patterns.
  • New file system writers supporting (ZIP) compression
  • Minor modifications to the Kieker.Analysis API:
    1. Removed the `register` methods. Registration now implicit by passing context information to the plugin constructors. A legacy mode for the previous API is included in this version.
    2. Analysis projects can now have properties available to the plugins.
  • Bug fixes and improvements to code, tests, documentation, examples
  • Various improvements to the WebGUI (see separate `HISTORY` file)
• Infrastructure:
  • Kieker releases now also published via Maven Central Repository (http://search.maven.org/)
  • Completely redesigned web site: https://kieker-monitoring.net
  • Live demo at http://demo.kieker-monitoring.net