Presented at Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2018.
Falcon is a tool aimed at making log-based analysis of distributed systems practical and effective. Falcon’s modular architecture, designed as an extensible pipeline, allows it to seamlessly combine several distinct logging sources and generate a coherent space-time diagram of distributed executions. To preserve event causality, even in the presence of logs collected from independent unsynchronized machines, Falcon introduces a novel happens-before symbolic formulation and relies on an off- the-shelf constraint solver to obtain a coherent event schedule.