TELEMETRY SYSTEM EXTENSION

• US 20170109259A1
• Filed: 10/16/2015
• Published: 04/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Lewis, Amy M., Shahani, Ravi C., Ellis, Brian P., Yip, Ken Ming-Kin, Titov, Vitaliy, Russinovich, Mark E., Todd, James O., Sabella, Vito J., Lang, Christopher M., Johnson, Jonathan K., Qadir, Mahmood G., Kozaczynski, Wojtek, Crawford, Brian R., Zintel, William M., Joy, George
• Granted Patent: US 10,929,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3082 the data filtering being achieved by aggregating or compressing the monitored data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3644 by instrumenting at runtime
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software

Abstract

A method of operating a telemetry system includes automatically populating a base field of a schema in an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system for an event of an instrumented application, and automatically populating a conditional field of the schema in the event definition using the logging library in response to a selected condition for the event.

Claims

1. A method of operating a telemetry system, the method comprising:

automatically populating a base field of a schema in an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system for an event of an instrumented application; and

automatically populating a conditional field of the schema in the event definition using the logging library in response to a selected condition for the event.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the base field is automatically populated with data in all events of the instrumented application.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the data common to all events includes client system data.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the conditional field is automatically populated with data related to an application environment condition.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the application environment condition includes application platform, operating system, or cloud environment.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the conditional field is populated with data in all events of the application environment condition.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the conditional field is automatically populated with data related to an application usage condition.

8. A method of operating a telemetry system, the method comprising:

automatically populating base fields of a first schema in an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system for an event;

automatically populating conditional fields of the first schema in the event definition using the logging library in response to a selected condition for the event; and

populating fields in a second schema selected by an event author.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein populating set of fields in the second schema includes preselected fields from the telemetry system.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the preselected fields are populated with data common to a plurality of applications.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the preselected fields include a predefined name and data type.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein populating set of fields in the second schema includes custom fields from the event author.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the custom fields include custom name and custom data type.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein the first set of fields in the schema includes an event envelope semantic and an ingest section.

15. The method of claim 8 wherein a field of the conditional fields is automatically populated with data related to an application environment condition.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein another field of the conditional fields is automatically populated with data related to an application usage condition.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the logging library includes a code library corresponding with a platform of the instrumented application.

18. A telemetry system, comprising:

a computing device including a processor and a memory configured to;

automatically populate a base field of a schema in an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system for an event of an instrumented application; and

automatically populate a conditional field of the schema in the event definition using the logging library in response to a selected condition for the event.

19. The telemetry system of claim 18 wherein the base field is automatically populated with data in all events of the instrumented application.

20. The telemetry system of claim 18 wherein the conditional field is automatically populated with data related to an application environment condition.