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

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