MONITORING NETWORK ENTITIES VIA A CENTRAL MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20160373328A1
• Filed: 09/02/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Reynolds, Daymion, Mink, Jeff, Condit, Craig, Boltz, Chris
• Application Number:
  US15/256,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20160373328A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/022 by sampling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/14 using software, i.e. software packages network security related monitoring H04L63/1408

Abstract

Systems and method of the present invention provide for one or more server computers configured to receive a plurality of data published by a network entity and identify, within the data: the network entity that published the data, a sample of one or more metrics for the network entity and a sample type of each of the one or more samples. The one or more server computers may further be configured to calculate a network resource usage score, using the one or more metrics according to one or more rules for each of the sample types identified, for the sample.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

retrieving, by a server computer from a data stream provided by a first server in a plurality of servers, a first encoded file identifying the first server, a first raw performance datum of the first server, and a first sample type of the first raw performance datum;

normalizing, by the server computer, the first raw performance datum using the first sample type of the first raw performance datum to generate a first normalized performance datum;

calculating, by the server computer, according to at least one scoring rule for the first sample type, a first score using the first normalized performance datum; and

responsive to a determination by the server computer that the first score is outside a minimum or maximum boundary determined by the first sample type, generating, by the server computer, a user interface including a recommended action to resolve a cause of an alert as defined for the first sample type.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving, by the server computer from a second data stream provided by a second server in the plurality of servers, a second encoded file identifying the second server, a second raw performance datum of the second server, and a second sample type of the second raw performance datum;

normalizing, by the server computer, the second raw performance datum using the second sample type of the second raw performance datum to generate a second normalized performance datum;

calculating, by the server computer, according to at least one scoring rule for the second sample type, a second score using the second normalized performance datum; and

comparing, by the server computer, the first score to the second score to determine the recommended action.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first server has not run calculations on the first raw performance datum.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of servers include a plurality of unrelated network nodes across one or more server clusters.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first encoded file is published via a message broker software utilizing a publish/subscribe model, wherein the first server publishes the first sample type of the first raw performance datum as a message topic.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first encoded file at least partially determines the alert.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first raw performance datum includes a collection of data containing at least one measurement of data for the first server over a specific period of time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first sample type identifies a purpose of the first server and the at least one scoring rule is at least partially determined by the purpose of the first server.

9. A method, comprising:

retrieving, by a server computer from a data stream provided by a first server in a plurality of servers, a first encoded file identifying the first server and a first raw performance datum of the first server;

normalizing, by the server computer, the first raw performance datum to generate a first normalized performance datum; and

generating, by the server computer, a user interface including a recommended action to resolve a cause of an alert using the first normalized performance datum.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

retrieving, by the server computer from a second data stream provided by a second server in the plurality of servers, a second encoded file identifying the second server and a second raw performance datum of the second server;

normalizing, by the server computer, the second raw performance datum to generate a second normalized performance datum; and

wherein the recommended action is at least partially determined by the second normalized performance datum.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the first server has not run calculations on the first raw performance datum.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of servers include a plurality of unrelated network nodes across one or more server clusters.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the first encoded file is published via a message broker software utilizing a publish/subscribe model, wherein the first server publishes a first sample type of the first raw performance datum as a message topic.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the first raw performance datum includes a collection of data containing at least one measurement of data for the first server over a specific period of time.

15. A system, comprising:

a server computer executing a single instance of a network monitoring software communicatively coupled to a network and configured to;

retrieve, from a data stream provided by a first server in a plurality of servers, a first encoded file identifying the first server, a first raw performance datum of the first server, and a first sample type of the first raw performance datum;

normalize the first raw performance datum using the first sample type of the first raw performance datum to generate a first normalized performance datum;

calculate, according to at least one scoring rule for the first sample type, a first score using the first normalized performance datum; and

responsive to a determination by the server computer that the first score is outside a minimum or maximum boundary determined by the first sample type, generate a user interface including a recommended action to resolve a cause of an alert as defined for the first sample type.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the server computer is further configured to:

Retrieve, from a second data stream provided by a second server in the plurality of servers, a second encoded file identifying the second server, a second raw performance datum of the second server, and a second sample type of the second raw performance datum;

normalize the second raw performance datum using the second sample type of the second raw performance datum to generate a second normalized performance datum;

calculate, according to at least one scoring rule for the second sample type, a second score using the second normalized performance datum; and

compare the first score to the second score to determine the recommended action.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the first server has not run calculations on the first raw performance datum.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the plurality of servers include a plurality of unrelated network nodes across one or more server clusters.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the first encoded file is published via a message broker software utilizing a publish/subscribe model, wherein the first server publishes the first sample type of the first raw performance datum as a message topic.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the first raw performance datum includes a collection of data containing at least one measurement of data for the first server over a specific period of time.