Generic instrumentation and monitoring description for software performance evaluation

Abstract

Instrumentation and monitoring plays an important role in measurement-based performance evaluation of software sys- tems. To this end, a large body of instrumentation and moni- toring tools exist which, however, depend on proprietary and programming-language-specific instrumentation languages. Due to the lack of a common instrumentation language, it is difficult and expensive to port per se generic measurement- based performance evaluation approaches among difierent application contexts. In this work-in-progress paper, we address this issue by introducing a performance-oriented, generic meta-model for application-independent and tool- independent description of instrumentation instructions. De- coupling the instrumentation description from its realization in a concrete application context, by a concrete instrumenta- tion tool allows to design measurement-based performance evaluation approaches in a generic and portable way.