EVENT MONITORING FOR COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING

• US 20100306709A1
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Victor S., Lyons, Stephen J., Michalec, Jared Michael, Lynch, Edward Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,396,234 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/854
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for an event monitoring tool configured for complex event processing (CEP). In one embodiment, a data processing system can include a CEP event monitoring tool configured for coupling to touch points over a network and a repository of a log of events occurring in the touch points. A dashboard can be displayed by the tool and can include a canvas view of events, associated interaction blocks each including filter criteria for associated events, and at least one activity triggered by an evaluation of at least one of the filter criteria in at least one of the interaction blocks for a corresponding one of the touch points. The canvas view further can include visual links between the events and the associated interaction blocks and between the activity and an interaction block amongst the interaction blocks triggering the activity.

Claims

1. A data processing system configured for complex event processing (CEP) event monitoring with a filtered canvas view of an event flow, the system comprising:

a CEP event monitoring tool executing by a processor in memory of a host server and configured for coupling to a plurality of touch points over a computer communications network;

a repository coupled to the CEP event monitoring tool, the repository comprising a log of events occurring in the touch points;

a dashboard programmatically displayed by the CEP event monitoring tool, the dashboard comprising a canvas view of events, associated interaction blocks each of the interaction blocks comprising filter criteria for associated ones of the events, and at least one activity triggered by an evaluation of at least one of the filter criteria in at least one of the interaction blocks for a corresponding one of the touch points, the canvas view further comprising visual links between the events and the associated interaction blocks and between the activity and an interaction block amongst the interaction blocks triggering the activity.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the canvas view is a filtered canvas view filtering the events, interaction blocks and activities according to a common context for the events specified through the dashboard.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the dashboard further comprises a selectable hierarchy of interaction blocks separate from the canvas view.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising for each event rendered in the canvas view, a visual indication visually disposed adjacent to a corresponding event of a number of occurrences of the corresponding event.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising for each filter criteria for each interaction block rendered in the canvas view, a visual indication visually disposed adjacent to a corresponding filter criteria of a current state of the corresponding filter criteria selected from the group consisting of true, false and not yet determinable.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising for a selected one of the filter criteria a visual indication visually disposed adjacent to the selected one of the filter criteria of a time remaining before evaluation of the selected one of the filter criteria.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising for a selected activity rendered in the canvas view a visual indication, visually disposed adjacent to the selected activity, of a time remaining before execution of the selected activity.

8. A method of rendering a filtered canvas view of an event flow in a data processing system configured for complex event processing (CEP) event monitoring, the method comprising:

receiving a context identifier through a dashboard displayed in a computer for a CEP event monitoring tool executing in memory by a processor of a host server;

filtering events in a log of events for monitored touch points communicatively coupled to the CEP event monitoring tool according to the context identifier;

displaying in a filtered canvas view disposed within the dashboard the filtered events and associated interaction blocks defined within the CEP event monitoring tool and at least one activity triggered by an evaluation of at least one filter criteria of a least one associated interaction block; and

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visually linking the filtered events and associated interaction blocks, and the at least one activity and the at least one associated interaction block in the filtered canvas view.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising additionally displaying a number of occurrences of corresponding ones of the events in the filtered canvas view.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising additionally displaying a current state of each of the filter criteria.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising additionally displaying a time remaining before evaluation of a selected one of the filter criteria.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising additionally displaying a time remaining before execution of the at least one activity.

13. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for rendering a filtered canvas view of an event flow in a data processing system configured for complex event processing (CEP) event monitoring, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for receiving a context identifier through a dashboard displayed in a computer for a CEP event monitoring tool executing in memory by a processor of a host server;

computer usable program code for filtering events in a log of events for monitored touch points communicatively coupled to the CEP event monitoring tool according to the context identifier;

computer usable program code for displaying in a filtered canvas view disposed within the dashboard the filtered events and associated interaction blocks defined within the CEP event monitoring tool and at least one activity triggered by an evaluation of at least one filter criteria of a least one associated interaction block; and

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computer usable program code for visually linking the filtered events and associated interaction blocks, and the at least one activity and the at least one associated interaction block in the filtered canvas view.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising computer usable program code for additionally displaying a number of occurrences of corresponding ones of the events in the filtered canvas view.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising computer usable program code for additionally displaying a current state of each of the filter criteria.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising computer usable program code for additionally displaying a time remaining before evaluation of a selected one of the filter criteria.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising computer usable program code for additionally displaying a time remaining before execution of the at least one activity.