Home // SERVICE COMPUTATION 2012, The Fourth International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing // View article

Workload Characterization for Stability-As-A-Service

Authors:
Vaishali P. Sadaphal
Maitreya Natu

Keywords: Stability As A Services, Performance and Capacity Management, Workload Characterization

Abstract:
Stability As A Service is critical for data centers and workload characterization is one of the essential services within Stability As A Service. Different solutions have been proposed in the past for characterizing various system properties, however most of these approaches often require high levels of instrumentation and intrusiveness. This makes their use difficult in real-world production systems. In this paper, we argue that many interesting insights can be derived to characterize system workload simply by analyzing the transaction logs captured at different layers in the system such as access logs at application servers, SQL logs at database servers, among others. We present two approaches that analyze various dimensions and measures of the transaction logs in order to characterize workload. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach through real-world case-studies and show how the findings of the two approaches complement each-other.

Pages: 84 to 91

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-215-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012