An online Live Demo installation of the Kieker monitoring and analysis framework is now available at: http://demo.kieker-monitoring.net/

We provide a monitored installation of the jPetStore example application. Each click inside this application generates several new monitoring records, visualized within our Live Demo. Refer to the start page for further details.

Starting with Kieker release 1.6, all Kieker releases are deployed at the Central Repository for Maven. Refer to the instruction on our download page for adding the required dependency configurations to your pom.xml.

Furthermore, all successful nightly builds (snapshots) of Kieker are made available with maven as well. Refer to the nightly build download page for additional details on the required configuration.

Today, we launched a completely restructured and redesigned web site for our application performance monitoring and dynamic analysis framework Kieker: https://kieker-monitoring.net.

Any feedback on the new site is highly appreciated!

The KoSSE-Symposium: Application Performance Management (Kieker Days 2012), which took place on November 29/30 in Kiel, has been a great success. 50 participants from academia and industry listened to 16 talks presented by researchers and practitioners. See the symposium web site, the KoSSE news post, and the DiWiSH photo gallery (in German) for details and photos.

The KoSSE-Symposium: Application Performance Management (Kieker Days 2012) will take place on November 29/30 in Kiel.

The program includes interesting talks, e.g., by:

• b+m Informatik AG, Melsdorf
• Consist Software Solutions GmbH, Kiel
• empuxa GmbH, Kiel
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Kiel University
• QAware GmbH, Munich
• RWTH Aachen
• SAP Research, Karlsruhe
• XING AG, Hamburg

See the web site (in German) for details.

Registration is required (no fee!): mail@diwish.de

Today, we released version 1.6 of our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis.

Major features

• Web-based UI for editing and running analysis projects (beta version)
• Adaptive monitoring: (De)activate monitoring on method signature level
  at runtime based on signature patterns
• Restructured and extended graph/visualization filters (trace coloring,
  tooltips etc.)
• Log rotation for file system writer
• Logging API: SLF4J support and logger selection via JVM argument
• Many new AspectJ-based probes for detailed event-based tracing
• Refactored realtime replayer based on new re-usable filters (realtime delay,
  record logger etc.)
• Java EE example: Now included in core binary release archive and based
  on MyBatis JPetStore deployed to Jetty server
• Definition of configuration properties and default values for analysis
  plugins and repositories now annotation-based
• Removed legacy control servlet (JMX interface should be used instead)

Quality

• Bug fixes
• Added a number of (JUnit) tests

See the release notes for details.

The SPEC Research Group, a group within the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), has launched a repository of peer-reviewed tools for quantitative system evaluation and analysis. One of the first tools to pass the review process for this repository is our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis.

• For details, please refer to the SPEC RG’s news post