Kieker in Eclipse - A Plug-in for Application Performance Monitoring and Dynamic Analysis in Eclipse

Abstract

The Kieker framework offers features to monitor and to analyse the runtime behaviour of software systems. In this paper, we propose an associated Eclipse plugin to ease the usage of Kieker for novice users and to enable the profiling in the Eclipse environment. The monitoring part of the plug-in enables the automatic integration and configuration of the monitoring via an integrated UI. In this way, an Eclipse project can be seamlessly monitored from within the Eclipse IDE. The analysis part of the plug-in provides predefined analyses and associated views for reasoning about monitored traces. It allows to sort, to filter, and to search for specific operation calls and traces. Moreover, it seamlessly integrates into Eclipse and thus enables to jump directly to the code of a selected operations call.