NAMING OF DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

• US 20140052856A1
• Filed: 10/31/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AppDynamics, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bansal, Jyoti, Sunkara, Bhaskar
• Granted Patent: US 9,015,315 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/55 Testing of service level quality, e.g. simulating service usage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

The present technology monitors a web application provided by one or more services. A service may be provided by applications. The monitoring system provides end-to-end business transaction visibility, identifies performance issues quickly and has dynamical scaling capability across monitored systems including cloud systems, virtual systems and physical infrastructures. In instances, a request may be received from a remote application. The request may be associated with a distributed transaction. Data associated with the request may be detected. A distributed transaction identifier may be generated for a distributed transaction based on the data associated with the request.

Claims

1. A method for identifying a transaction, comprising:

receiving a request from a remote application, the request associated with a distributed transaction;

detecting data associated with the request; and

generating a distributed transaction identifier for a distributed transaction based on the data associated with the request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes a uniform resource locator associated with the request, the distributed transaction identifier generated at least in part from the uniform resource locator.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes a portion of the request, the distributed transaction identifier generated at least in part from the portion of the request.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the distributed transaction identifier associated with the request is stored in a table.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a subsequent request from the remote application;

detecting a second data associated with the request; and

retrieving the distributed transaction identifier associated with the second data from the table.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the distributed transaction identifier associated with the request.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein subsequent requests made across one or more servers and associated with the distributed transaction include the distributed transaction identifier.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a thread handling the request is associated with the distributed transaction identifier.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the distributed transaction identifier includes a distributed transaction name.

10. A computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for identifying a transaction, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a remote application, the request associated with a distributed transaction;

detecting data associated with the request; and

generating a distributed transaction identifier for a distributed transaction based on the data associated with the request.

11. A system for identifying a transaction, the system comprising:

a processor;

memory; and

an agent stored in the memory and executable by the processor to receive a request from a remote application, the request associated with a distributed transaction, detect data associated with the request, and generate a distributed transaction identifier for a distributed transaction based on the data associated with the request.