MEASURING ACTUAL END USER PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY OF WEB APPLICATIONS

• US 20150304398A1
• Filed: 01/07/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Letca, Ilarie, Coelho, Alexandre, Kurapati, Venkata Seshu Kumar, Sudhakar, Rajeev, Savage, Daniel, Sanghvi, Ashvinkumar, Lim, Jin Soon
• Granted Patent: US 9,973,568 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• 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

Techniques for monitoring web application performance are provided. A request for a web application is received at an application server. A response pipeline at the application server generates client application code corresponding to the requested web application. The client application code is intercepted in the response pipeline. Instrumentation code is inserted into the intercepted client application code to generate an instrumented client application code. The instrumentation code is configured to be executed when the instrumented client application code is rendered at the client to capture performance information at the client, and is configured to transmit the captured performance information from the client.

Claims

1. A method in a client, comprising:

transmitting a request to a server for a web application; and

receiving an instrumented client application code from the server in response to the request, the instrumented client application code being configured to implement the web application, the instrumented client application code including instrumentation code inserted into the instrumented client application code at the server, the instrumentation code being configured to be executed to capture performance information at the client when the instrumented client application code is rendered at the client, and being configured to transmit the captured performance information from the client.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

rendering the instrumented client application code using a browser at the client;

executing the instrumentation code during said rendering to capture performance information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

transmitting the captured performance information to a management server.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

aggregating captured performance information over multiple executions of the instrumentation code; and

transmitting the aggregated captured performance information to a management server.