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Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows

Summary: Proposes Inspector Gadget (IG), a framework for custom monitoring and debugging of distributed dataflow query processing in Pig/Hadoop. Attaches to unmodified dataflows, enabling lightweight instrumentation via a few hundred Java lines and a dozen tools; Penny, a Pig-based IG, to ship with Pig v0.9. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10187
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
6.0554018e-05
Overall Rank
4,603 | 67.98%
DOI
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1,308 Upper and Lower Bounds on the Cost of a Map-Reduce Computation 2013 VLDB 0.00012661651
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5,209 Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics 2016 VLDB 5.629362e-05
12,109 Declarative Error Management for Robust Data-Intensive Applications 2012 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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