Sebastian Łaskawiec created ISPN-6833:
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Summary: Visualization and tracing of messages between nodes
Key: ISPN-6833
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-6833
Project: Infinispan
Issue Type: Feature Request
Reporter: Sebastian Łaskawiec
Note: There is a work in progress already happening:
https://github.com/infinispan/infispector
We know what kind of messages should be generated between nodes to perform specific
operations - in theory -, still to debug problems of configuration or implementation on
the whole stack (application + Infinispan + JGroups) we often need to look into the logs,
having thousands of trace lines even when sampling for small periods of time.
It would be very useful to have a way to automatically extrapolate the interesting
patterns out of a running system, we could collect reliable information for example using
(just ideas):
* A custom JGroups protocol
* Byteman to instrument JGroups for specific events (like network socket usage, or
thresholds being reached in internal structures like resend tables or threadpool sizes)
* Simple log file parsing
The collected information could then be used to generate condensed reports highlighting
the patterns being used in practice to compare them with expected patterns.
I have two different kinds if output in mind:
* A graphical visualization, showing the cluster nodes and a sequence of colored arrows
showcasing what is being done
* A short text representation, to be used by:
** automated tests to verify invariant expectations are not broken on code changes
** future possible tool to formally proof correctness / race conditions
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