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Lightweight Linux observability

Making system failures easier to understand on constrained machines.

ExperimentingPublic · no signup to readOpen source · MIT
Server infrastructure and network cabling in a data center

The work in progress

An illustrative engineering experiment in collecting useful system signals with a small resource footprint. The team is comparing diagnostic approaches before choosing an implementation.

What we’re working towards

  • Define a useful minimum set of signals
  • Benchmark resource usage
  • Publish lessons from failure experiments

Where another perspective helps

The next step is to test the assumptions behind the approach. A collaborator can bring feedback, a reproducible experiment or experience from a different engineering discipline.

  • Linux
  • Performance review

Collaboration terms

Illustrative volunteer open-source collaboration under the MIT license. No compensation or equity is offered in this example. Publishing a project on Runtime does not transfer its ownership to Runtime Collective.