Edgenet 2006 - The Case for Comprehensive Diagnostics

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 6:32

The Internet has achieved great creative success, opening our eyes to radically new communication capabilities and distributed control opportunities. Yet for all the critical and commercial success of the past twenty years, we remain essentially unable to quantify or trace the actions of services and devices on the network. The Internet is a maelstrom of packets and protocols, an infrastructure built to speed it all along to quick completion, but constructed without detailed measures, without consistency of metrics or traces, with no visibility into how it's operating. When there is a perceived problem with an application or supported service, a diagnostician must have the tools and information at their disposal to pinpoint the problem with reasonable certainty, in hopes of avoiding the problem in the future. We propose creating a new capability, one to collect, manage, and correlate log and diagnostic event information to not only enable investigation of problems, but that can also support validation of correct operation in complex networked systems. If realized, the resulting capabilities will provide the visibility to understand, control and validate essential operation in the computing environments we increasingly rely upon.