Cloud Computing Monitoring and Management System

• US 20110145836A1
• Filed: 12/12/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: WHEELER, Bradley, GRIFFIN, Bryan
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,701 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/314
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues

Abstract

A cloud computing monitoring system has an alert capturing system and a message transfer system that provides performance tracking and alert management to a local monitoring system. The alert capturing system may operate as part of a managed code framework and may capture and route alerts that may be transmitted to an operating system, as well as application exceptions and debugging information. A message queuing system may transmit the alerts to a local monitoring system, which may have a connector that subscribes to the cloud system'"'"'s message queuing system.

Claims

1. A cloud computing environment comprising:

a hardware fabric;

a runtime management system configured to execute an application;

a monitoring framework being a linkable library comprising;

a message configuration function configured to receive information from said application and create a message in a predefined format consumable by a monitoring application; and

a message transmission function configured to transmit said message to said monitoring application.

2. The cloud computing environment of claim 1 further comprising:

a message queuing system being called by said message transmission function, said message queuing system configured to receive messages from said monitoring framework and transmit said messages to said monitoring application.

3. The cloud computing environment of claim 2, said message queuing system comprising a message queue configured to store said messages until transmitting said messages to said monitoring application.

4. The cloud computing environment of claim 3, said message queuing system having a subscription mechanism for a plurality of message queues.

5. The cloud computing environment of claim 4, said monitoring application requesting a subscription to said message queue.

6. The cloud computing environment of claim 5, said message queuing system authenticating said monitoring application for said subscription.

7. The cloud computing environment of claim 1, said runtime management system comprising a managed code environment.

8. The cloud computing environment of claim 7, said monitoring framework being dynamically linked to said application.

9. The cloud computing environment of claim 8, said monitoring framework comprising a runtime version and a development version, said development version being executable in a conventional computing environment.

10. The cloud computing environment of claim 1, said information comprising exceptions thrown by said application and captured by said application.

11. The cloud computing environment of claim 1, said information comprising performance information generated by said application.

12. The cloud computing environment of claim 1, said information comprising debugging information generated by said application.

13. The cloud computing environment of claim 12, said debugging information being generated when said application is operated in a debugging mode.

14. A method performed by a cloud based runtime environment, said method comprising:

linking to a cloud application executing in a cloud environment;

receiving information to transmit to a monitoring application, said monitoring application being located on a remote device;

evaluating said information to determine an information type;

creating a message comprising at least a portion of said information, said message having a predefined format; and

transmitting said message to said monitoring application.

15. The method of claim 14, said cloud based runtime environment not having an operating system directly accessible by said cloud application.

16. The method of claim 15, said transmitting said message comprising transmitting said message to a message queuing system.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

authenticating a subscription from said monitoring application for said messages.

18. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

consolidating a plurality of said messages into a single message.

19. A cloud computing environment comprising:

a hardware fabric;

a runtime management system configured to execute an application in a managed code environment;

a message queuing system configured to receive messages and provide a subscription service for remote devices to subscribe to a message queue;

a monitoring framework being a linkable library comprising;

a message receiving function configured to receive information from said application;

a message classification function configured to determine a classification for a message by evaluating said information;

a message generation function configured to receive information from said application and create a message in a predefined format consumable by a monitoring application; and

a message transmission function configured to transmit said message to said message queuing system for transmission to said monitoring application.

20. The cloud computing environment of claim 19, said monitoring framework further comprising:

a message aggregation function configured to consolidate a plurality of said messages into a single message.