AGGREGATION/EVALUATION OF HETEROGENIC TIME SERIES DATA

• US 20160217160A1
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation), Microsoft Technology Limited, LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Croft, Jeffrey Deane
• Granted Patent: US 10,311,045 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries

Abstract

The collection and aggregation of time series data from a variety of heterogenic time series data sources. This may be accomplished through the use of multiple collector modules, each configured to gather time series data from a different time series data source, and translate that time series data from its original format into a common format. An evaluation module applies one or more expressions against the time series data in the common format in order to identify one or more operations to perform, such as alerting, reporting, actuating, and so forth. Accordingly, the principles describe herein allow real world information to be gather and acted upon even when the time series data is gathered from disparate sources. Furthermore, different systems can rely upon the actions being consistent based on access to the same underlying data.

Claims

1. A method for gathering time series data from multiple heterogenic time series data source, the method comprising:

an act of a first collector module gathering a first plurality of time series data of a first type and having a first format from a first type of time series data source, and translate the first plurality of time series data into a resulting format;

an act of a second collector module gathering a second plurality of time series data of a second type and having a second format from a second type of time series data source, and translate the second plurality of time series data into the same resulting format; and

an act of an expression evaluation module evaluating the first and second plurality of time series data provided by the first and second collector modules to determine one or more resulting actions to perform.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of a third collector module gathering a third plurality of time series data of a third type and having a third format from a third type of time series data source, and translate the third plurality of time series data into the same resulting format,

wherein the act of the expression evaluation module evaluating further includes the evaluation module evaluating the third plurality of time series data provided by the third collector modules to determine the one or more resulting actions to perform.

3. The method in accordance with claim 2, the third collector module being a dynamically linkable module.

4. The method in accordance with claim 1, the one or more resulting actions comprising generating an alert.

5. The method in accordance with claim 1, the one or more resulting actions comprising generating a report.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of a configuration module using first configuration data to configure the first collector module to gather and translate the first plurality of time series data; and

an act of the configuration module using second configuration data to configure the second collector module to gather and translate the second plurality of time series data.

7. The method in accordance with claim 1, the first time series data being external to an enterprise system that operates the first collector module.

8. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of an intermediate evaluation module operating one or more expressions on the resulting time series data in the resulting format to generate data upon with the expression evaluation module operates.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1, the gathered and translated first plurality of time series data provided into a first intermediate store, the gathered and translated second plurality of time series data provided into a second intermediate store, the method further comprising:

an act of an intermediate evaluation module operating upon the first and second intermediate data stores to generate data into a final data store upon which the expression evaluation module operates.

10. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of receiving one or more expressions to be applied by the expression evaluation module from a user interface that gathered the one or more expressions from a user.

11. The method in accordance with claim 1, the first time series data being live data.

12. The method in accordance with claim 1, the first time series data being historical data.

13. The method in accordance with claim 1, the first time series data being change history records.

14. The method in accordance with claim 1, the first time series data being log records.

15. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of a performance module performing the determined one or more resulting actions.

16. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for gathering time series data from multiple heterogenic time series data source, the method comprising:

an act of a first collector module gathering a first plurality of time series data of a first type and having a first format from a first type of time series data source, and translate the first plurality of time series data into a resulting format;

an act of a second collector module gathering a second plurality of time series data of a second type and having a second format from a second type of time series data source, and translate the second plurality of time series data into the same resulting format; and

an act of an expression evaluation module evaluating the first and second plurality of time series data provided by the first and second collector modules to determine one or more resulting actions to perform.

17. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to instantiate and/or operation the following on the computing system:

a plurality of collector modules, each configured to gather data from a time series data source of different types, and translate the time series data into a common format; and

an evaluation module configured to apply one or more expressions upon the time series data translated into the common format to determine one or more actions to perform.

18. The computer program product in accordance with claim 17, computer-executable instructions being further structured, such that when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the computing system to instantiate and/or operate the following:

a configuration module configured to provision each of at least some of the plurality of collector modules to gather the time series data of the appropriate type for the corresponding time series data source.

19. The computer program product in accordance with claim 17, the computer-executable instructions being further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the computing system to instantiate and/or operate the following:

a performance module configured to perform the one or more actions determined by the evaluation module.

20. The computer program product in accordance with claim 17, the computer-executable instructions being further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the computing system to instantiate and/or operate the following:

a user interface configured to gather input from a user to thereby generate one or more expressions to be applied by the expressions module, and communicate the one or more expressions to the evaluation module.