Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows
Summary: Inspector Gadget (IG) enables custom instrumentation for monitoring and debugging distributed dataflows without modifying systems such as Pig/Hadoop. Its extensible tools support diverse user needs, are quick to implement, and impose modest overhead. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Christopher Olston (Yahoo)
- 2. Benjamin Reed (Yahoo)
BibTeX Citation
@article{olston_vldb11,
title = {{Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows}},
author = {Olston, Christopher and Reed, Benjamin},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '11},
volume = {4},
number = {12},
pages = {1237--1240},
doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402758},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402758},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,514 | Upper and Lower Bounds on the Cost of a Map-Reduce Computation | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00010527649 |
| 1,617 | Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00010209397 |
| 4,845 | Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics | 2016 | VLDB | 6.4818607e-05 |
| 12,306 | Declarative Error Management for Robust Data-Intensive Applications | 2012 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.00034510605 |
| 642 | Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00015395331 |
| 1,851 | Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications | 1993 | VLDB | 9.6139015e-05 |
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