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instrumentation

instrumentation

1 5.8
Adding code to a program to collect data about performance and errors
  • noun
  • /ˌɪnstrəmenˈteɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : instrumentación
  • The team implemented advanced instrumentation to gather detailed performance metrics from the software application.
  • performance instrumentation

Examples

  • Unlike instruction and memory tracing, traces of disk accesses can be collected via software instrumentation without loss of information or undue perturbation of the system under study.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Section 3 describes the various approaches to performance instrumentation.

    Academic text (2000)
  • When this data is used for performance-related activities, the process is referred to as performance instrumentation.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In 1976, the university had entered into a contract with the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Commerce to establish a Biomedical Instrumentation Unit.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Instrumentation occasionally generates short messages that are collected in a system-specific log.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Fay then inserts dynamic instrumentation into the running system, aggregates the measurements, and provides analysis mechanisms, all specific to those queries.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Various instrumentation techniques are discussed (software approaches, traces, counters, and hardware emulators), and their limitations are presented.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Effective instrumentation allows engineers to monitor system reliability and diagnose issues in real time.

  • Incorporating instrumentation into the application helps developers track logs and traces for better debugging.

Synonyms

tracing
vsinstrumentation
  • Specialized
5 5.8

Recording the path of requests through a computer system to find problems

is broader, involving adding code and tools to collect many diagnostic data types
tracing routine
vsinstrumentation
  • Specialized
6.8

A part of a computer program that records the order of steps when it runs to help find bugs

is the wider practice of adding code and tools to gather various diagnostic data

How Instrumented

instrumentation
  • Specialized
1 5.8
tracing
  • Specialized
5 5.8
metrics
  • Specialized
1 3.5
monitoring
130 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

instrumentation = instrument (opaque) = instrument + ation

This software sense is a metaphorical extension of the technical meaning and is not easily inferable from the literal parts alone.

Etymology

Instrumentation comes from instrument, meaning 'tool', and -ation. A helpful way to remember the software sense is to imagine putting small 'tools' inside code to watch what it does, so instrumentation in software means adding measurements, logs, and other data to see and fix problems.