NinjaWare Low Overhead Software Monitoring and Analysis

Introduction

NinjaWare is a project investigating lightweight continuous monitoring and analysis of software. Our implementation allows us to gather fine-grain temporal information about high frequency events such as program data accesses with very low overhead (< 5%). We are exploring leveraging this infrastructure to build a wide variety of always-on runtime tools ranging from memory leak and data race detectors to program specification/invariant checkers and security monitors.

Papers

• Trishul Chilimbi (MSR Redmond)
• Matthias Hauswirth (University of Lugano)
• Martin Hirzel (IBM Research)
• Vinod Ganapathy (University of Rutgers)