Vamos: Middleware for Best-Effort Third-Party Monitoring

Marek Chalupa, Fabian Muehlboeck, Stefanie Muroya Lei, Thomas A. Henzinger

Abstract: As the complexity and criticality of software increase every year, so does the importance of run-time monitoring. Third-party monitoring, with limited knowledge of the monitored software, and best-effort monitoring, which keeps pace with the monitored software, are especially valuable, yet underexplored areas of run-time monitoring. Most existing monitoring frameworks do not support their combination because they either require access to the monitored code for instrumentation purposes or the processing of all observed events, or both.