HIERARCHICAL LIVE GRAPHS FOR PERFORMANCE DATA DISPLAY

• US 20140075380A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Milirud, Michael, Brewster, Eric D., Teeuwen, Nathan
• Granted Patent: US 9,389,981 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment

Abstract

A system performance analysis user interface includes a thumbnail portion and an analysis view portion. One or more performance indicator thumbnails and/or data source thumbnails are displayed in the thumbnail portion. Each performance indicator thumbnail displays a live graph identifying performance data of an associated one of multiple performance indicators, and each data source thumbnail displays a live graph of performance of an associated data source. Additional data regarding one or more data sources, such as contribution to usage of the data source by each of multiple contributors, is displayed in the analysis view portion.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a system, the method comprising:

displaying, in a first portion of a system performance analysis user interface, multiple user-selectable performance indicator thumbnails, each performance indicator thumbnail being associated with one of multiple performance indicators of the system and displaying a graph identifying performance data for the associated one of the multiple performance indicators; and

displaying, in the first portion of the system performance analysis user interface and in response to user selection of a performance indicator thumbnail associated with a performance indicator, one or more data source thumbnails associated with the performance indicator, each of the one or more data source thumbnails displaying a graph of performance of an associated data source.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying in the first portion the one or more data source thumbnails concurrently with the one or more performance indicator thumbnails.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, each performance indicator thumbnail displaying a live graph identifying performance data for the associated performance indicator, and each data source thumbnail displaying a live graph of performance data of the associated data source.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying, in a second portion of the system performance analysis user interface, additional data identifying one or more contributors to usage of a particular data source, the particular data source being the data source associated with a user-selected one of the one or more data source thumbnails.

5. A method as recited in claim 4, further comprising synchronizing performance data displayed in a graph of the second portion, in a graph of one of the performance indicator thumbnails, and in a graph of one of the data source thumbnails.

6. A method as recited in claim 4, further comprising receiving a user indication, input via the first portion, of a portion of time that is a region of interest, and displaying in the second portion the additional data identifying one or more contributors to usage of the particular data source in the region of interest.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising receiving a user selection of a portion of time and identifying, in each performance indicator thumbnail in the first portion, the portion of time.

8. A method as recited in claim 7, the identifying the portion of time comprising highlighting, in a graph displayed in each of the performance indicator thumbnails, a portion of the graph corresponding to the portion of time.

9. A method as recited in claim 7, further comprising identifying, in each data source thumbnail in the first portion, the portion of time.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, the multiple performance indicators including a computation performance indicator, a storage performance indicator, and a memory performance indicator.

11. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying, in an additional window and in response to a finger or object hovering over one of the one or more data source thumbnails, additional data identifying contribution to usage of a particular data source by each of multiple contributors, the particular data source being the data source associated with the one of the one or more data source thumbnails.

12. One or more computer storage media having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the one or more processors to:

display, in a first portion of a system performance analysis user interface, one or more data source thumbnails associated with one of multiple performance indicators of the system, each of the one or more data source thumbnails displaying a graph of performance data of the associated data source; and

display, in a second portion of the system performance analysis user interface, an analysis view for a data source of a user-selected one of one or more data source thumbnails, the analysis view displaying contribution to the data source usage by each of multiple contributors, the analysis view being synchronized with the user-selected data source graph.

13. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 12, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to display, in the first portion of the system performance analysis user interface and concurrently with display of the one or more data source thumbnails, a user-selectable performance indicator thumbnail for each of the multiple performance indicators of the system, each performance indicator thumbnail displaying a graph identifying performance for an associated one of the multiple performance indicators.

14. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to display, in the first portion of the system performance analysis user interface and concurrently with display of the one or more data source thumbnails, a user-selectable preset thumbnail, each preset thumbnail displaying a graph identifying performance for an attribute of a user-selected one of the one or more data source thumbnails.

15. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, each performance indicator thumbnail displaying a live graph identifying performance data for the associated performance indicator, and each data source thumbnail displaying a live graph of performance data of the associated data source.

16. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 12, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to receive a user selection of a region of interest, and identify, in graphs displayed in each of the data source thumbnails, the region of interest.

17. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 16, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to identify, in a graph in the analysis view, the region of interest.

18. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 16, the multiple instructions causing the one or more processors to receive the user selection of the region of interest comprising instructions causing the one or more processors to receive the user selection input via the first portion of the system performance analysis user interface.

19. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 12, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to update the graph of performance data displayed in each of the one or more data source thumbnails as the performance data changes over time while the system performance analysis user interface is displayed.

20. A method implemented in a system, the method comprising:

displaying, in a first portion of a system performance analysis user interface, multiple user-selectable performance indicator thumbnails, each performance indicator thumbnail being associated with one of multiple performance indicators of the system and displaying a graph identifying performance data for the associated one of the multiple performance indicators;

displaying, in the first portion of the system performance analysis user interface and in response to user selection of a performance indicator thumbnail associated with a performance indicator, one or more data source thumbnails associated with the performance indicator, each of the one or more data source thumbnails displaying a graph of performance data of an associated data source;

displaying, in a second portion of the system performance analysis user interface, an analysis view for a data source of a user-selected one of the one or more data source thumbnails, the analysis view displaying contribution to the data source usage by each of multiple contributors, the analysis view being synchronized with the one or more data source thumbnails and with the multiple performance indicator thumbnails;

receiving a user indication, input via the first portion, of a region of interest; and

displaying an identification of the region of interest in each of the multiple performance indicator thumbnails, each of the one or more data source thumbnails, and in a graph included in the analysis view for the data source.