Hi, The Linux Foundation Board of Directors has accepted the Diagnostic and Monitoring (DiaMon) Workgroup, we will start taking about it next Monday in Düsseldorf at the Tracing Summit 2014 co-located with LinuxCon Europe. The goal of DiaMon is to improve open-source user-space, hardware and middleware diagnostic and monitoring software, you can find web site draft at http://diamon.org.
The complexity of systems is growing rapidly, multi-core introduces notoriously difficult-to-find bugs, hypervisors, virtual machines, middleware and cloud technologies create extra layers, heterogeneous systems are now common in embedded systems, the Internet of Things requires interactions between different types of devices, etc. The increased complexity is creating tricky problems requiring a significant amount of investigation with programs that are not typically created to be diagnosed together, e.g. open source components, libraries, in house code, proprietary third party, etc. With open source adoption we now have the opportunity to create a de-facto widely used tracing and monitoring infrastructure. We would like to improve interoperability between those tools, as well as improve Linux-based tracing, profiling, logging, and monitoring features. We would like to accelerate this development by making it easier to work together on common pieces. DiaMon has an efficient and simple governance model, http://diamon.org/projects/governance/, mainly aiming at facilitating collaboration between companies and developers, enabling end users to share their use-cases and feedback on future improvements. The main expected result is improving open source user-space, hardware and middleware diagnostic and monitoring software to solve real world problems. Eventually, the Workgroup will also be a place to host open source software that addresses diagnostic and monitoring problems. We are still in the setup phase. Your input regarding the Workgroup goals and structure is welcome. Please let us know within a week or two if you want to be part of the initial DiaMon participants. Best Regards, Dominique Toupin & Mathieu Desnoyers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/