Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows
Summary: Framework for custom monitoring and debugging of distributed dataflows; lightweight, pluggable add-ons for Pig. User-driven: 12 of 14 monitoring behaviors implemented; add-ons in hundreds of Java lines each, showing practical, extensible introspection. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Christopher Olston (Yahoo)
- 2. Benjamin Reed (Yahoo)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{olston_sigmod11,
title = {{Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows}},
author = {Olston, Christopher and Reed, Benjamin},
series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989459},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989459},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,250 | Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines | 2021 | CIDR | 5.9418015e-05 |
| 8,090 | Amber: A Debuggable Dataflow System Based on the Actor Model | 2020 | VLDB | 5.4890583e-05 |
| 9,748 | Graft: A Debugging Tool For Apache Giraph | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.227679e-05 |
Previous
Page 1 / 1
Next
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Previous
Page 1 / 1
Next
Semantically Similar Papers
| # | Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,814 | Demonstration of Interactive Runtime Debugging of Distributed Dataflows in Texera | 2020 | VLDB |
| 2 | 6,816 | Inspector Gadget: A Data Programming-based Labeling System for Industrial Images | 2021 | VLDB |
| 3 | 9,495 | Debugging Large-Scale Data Science Pipelines using Dagger | 2020 | VLDB |
| 4 | 9,418 | BugDoc: A System for Debugging Computational Pipelines | 2020 | SIGMOD |
| 5 | 5,404 | Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger | 2020 | CIDR |
| 6 | 642 | Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience | 2009 | VLDB |
| 7 | 11,106 | IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems | 2025 | VLDB |
| 8 | 6,250 | Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines | 2021 | CIDR |
| 9 | 4,518 | MLINSPECT: A Data Distribution Debugger for Machine Learning Pipelines | 2021 | SIGMOD |
| 10 | 4,693 | Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows | 2011 | VLDB |