System and method for high-performance profiling of application events

• US 20050010930A1
• Filed: 07/07/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vaught, Jeffrey A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,984,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

A system and method for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes registering a profiler as a provider to an event tracer. Information associated with an event is captured using the profiler, the event is associated with a web-enabled application. A function token is associated with the captured information, which is communicated to the event tracer.

Claims

1. A method for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events comprising:

registering a profiler as a provider to an event tracer;

capturing information associated with an event associated with a web-enabled application using the profiler;

associating a function token with the captured information; and

communicating the captured information to the event tracer.

2. The method of claim 1, the captured information comprising a function ID, a class ID, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a context ID.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

logging the captured information using the event tracer; and

adding a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token.

4. The method of claim 3, the event comprising a start event and the method further comprising:

capturing information associated with a second event, the second event associated with the web-enabled application and comprising an end event;

communicating the information associated with the end event to the event tracer;

logging the captured information associated with the end event using the event tracer;

invoking a correlator process to associate the end event and the start event; and

adding a result from the correlator process to the logged information associated with the end event.

5. The method of claim 4, the profiler comprising a callable remote function and wherein adding a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token comprises adding the function name to the logged information through querying assembly metadata.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

comparing the captured information to one or more criteria in an administration profile; and

invoking one or more profiler functions in response to at least a subset of the information satisfying the criteria.

7. The method of claim 6, the administration profile criteria comprising one or more assemblies, one or more classes, and one or more methods.

8. Software for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events operable to:

register a profiler as a provider to an event tracer;

capture information associated with an event associated with a web-enabled application using the profiler;

associate a function token with the captured information; and

communicate the captured information to the event tracer.

9. The software of claim 8, the captured information comprising a function ID, a class ID, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a context ID.

10. The software of claim 8 further operable to:

log the captured information using the event tracer; and

add a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token.

11. The software of claim 10, the event comprising a start event and the software further operable to:

capture information associated with a second event, the second event associated with the web-enabled application and comprising an end event;

communicate the information associated with the end event to the event tracer;

log the captured information associated with the end event using the event tracer;

invoke a correlator process to associate the end event and the start event; and

add a result from the correlator process to the logged information associated with the end event.

12. The software of claim 11, the profiler comprising a callable remote function and wherein the software operable to add a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token comprises software operable to add the function name to the logged information through querying assembly metadata.

13. The software of claim 8 further operable to:

compare the captured information to one or more criteria in an administration profile; and

invoke one or more profiler functions in response to at least a subset of the information satisfying the criteria.

14. The software of claim 13, the administration profile criteria comprising one or more assemblies, one or more classes, and one or more methods.

15. A system for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events comprising:

memory storing a profiler and an event tracer; and

one or more processors operable to;

register the profiler as a provider to the event tracer;

capture information associated with an event associated with a web-enabled application using the profiler;

associate a function token with the captured information; and

communicate the captured information to the event tracer.

16. The system of claim 15, the captured information comprising a function ID, a class ID, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a context ID.

17. The system of claim 15, the one or more processors operable to:

log the captured information using the event tracer; and

add a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token.

18. The system of claim 17, the event comprising a start event and the one or more processors further operable to:

capture information associated with a second event, the second event associated with the web-enabled application and comprising an end event;

communicate the information associated with the end event to the event tracer;

log the captured information associated with the end event using the event tracer;

invoke a correlator process to associate the end event and the start event; and

add a result from the correlator process to the logged information associated with the end event.

19. The system of claim 18, the profiler comprising a callable remote function and wherein adding a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token comprises adding the function name to the logged information through querying assembly metadata.

20. The system of claim 15, the one or more processors further operable to:

compare the captured information to one or more criteria in an administration profile; and

invoke one or more profiler functions in response to at least a subset of the information satisfying the criteria.

21. The system of claim 20, the administration profile criteria comprising one or more assemblies, one or more classes, and one or more methods.

22. A system for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events comprising:

means for registering a profiler as a provider to an event tracer;

means for capturing information associated with an event associated with a web-enabled application using the profiler;

means for associating a function token with the captured information; and

means for communicating the captured information to the event tracer.

23. Software for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events operable to:

register a profiler as a provider to an event tracer;

capture information associated with a start event associated with a web-enabled application using the profiler, the captured information comprising a function ID, a class ID, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a context ID;

associate a function token with the captured information;

add a function name to the logged information based, at least in part, on the function token through querying assembly metadata;

communicate the captured information to the event tracer;

log the captured information using the event tracer;

capture information associated with a second event, the second event associated with the web-enabled application and comprising an end event;

communicate the captured information associated with the end event to the event tracer;

log the captured information associated with the end event using the event tracer;

correlate the start event and the end event; and

add the correlation of the start event and the end event to the logged information associated with the end event.