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International Symposium on Formal Methods

FM 2023: Formal Methods pp 383–402Cite as

Monitoring the Internet Computer

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The Internet Computer (IC) is a distributed platform for Web3 applications, spanning over 1,200 nodes worldwide. We present results on applying runtime monitoring to the IC. We use the MonPoly monitor and its expressive policy language with quantifiers over infinite domains, aggregations, and past and future operators. We formalize complex policies that cover common kinds of production incidents and IC-specific protocol properties, including malicious behaviors and infrastructure outages. Using these policies, we evaluate MonPoly’s performance in a large-scale case study that includes logs from both production and testing environments. We find, for example, that MonPoly performs well on testing logs, and that half of our policies applicable to production logs can be monitored in an online setting. Overall, our policies and IC traces constitute a new benchmark for first-order temporal logic monitors.

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    Maximum monitoring time (80 min) divided by the longest test (362 min).

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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments, and Qijing Yu, Bas van Dijk, and Nikolay Komarevskiy for helping set up this project.

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    David Basin, Srđan Krstić & Joshua Schneider

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Basin, D. et al. (2023). Monitoring the Internet Computer. In: Chechik, M., Katoen, JP., Leucker, M. (eds) Formal Methods. FM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14000. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27481-7_22

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