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Log data service in a virtual environment

  • US 10,133,741 B2
  • Filed: 02/13/2014
  • Issued: 11/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of implementing a log data service in a multi-tenant environment operated by a compute service provider, comprising:

  • receiving log data including a plurality of events and/or messages from a virtual machine in the multi-tenant environment, wherein the received log data is from the virtual machine executing an application and an operating system and the application transmits the log data directly to a log data service;

    using a service of the compute service provider, searching through the log data to determine which of the plurality of events and/or messages are associated with at least one predetermined pattern based on a policy document provided by a customer;

    transforming the log data based on a schema provided in the policy document that defines how to transform the log data into metric data in correspondence with the predetermined pattern using results of the search, the transforming including matching the predetermined pattern in the log data and using the matching to generate the metric data;

    transmitting the metric data to a service that allows the metric data to be monitored; and

    storing the log data in association with the customer account in the log data service.

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