Inspector gadget: a framework for custom monitoring and debugging of distributed dataflows

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Olston;Benjamin Reed

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA;Yahoo! Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We demonstrate a novel dataflow introspection framework called Inspector Gadget, which makes it easy to create custom monitoring and debugging add-ons to an existing dataflow engine such as Pig. The framework is motivated by a series of informal user interviews, which revealed that dataflow monitoring and debugging needs are both pressing and diverse. Of the 14 monitoring/debugging behaviors requested by users, we were able to implement 12 in Inspector Gadget, in just a few hundred lines of (Java) code each.