System and method for externalized real-time log correlation and performance monitoring of service-oriented applications

• US 7,783,750 B1
• Filed: 07/30/2007
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Luedecke, Michael J., Casey, William L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan; Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yohannes; Tesfay
• Application Number:
  US11/881,870
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A method for service call data logging, including intercepting a call to a data processing service; generating first log data corresponding to the call; transmitting a request message to the data processing service, the request message including the first log data and the call; intercepting a response message corresponding to the request message, the response message including a service response to the call and second log data corresponding to the first log data and including log information corresponding to processing of the call; generating third log data corresponding to the first log data and the second log data; and storing the third log data.

Claims

1. A method for service call data logging, comprising:

intercepting a call to a data processing service;

generating first log data corresponding to the call in response to said intercepting and before the call is received by the data processing service, wherein generating the first log data includes calling an Application Monitor function;

transmitting a request message to the data processing service, the request message including the first log data and the call;

intercepting a response message corresponding to the request message, the response message including a service response to the call and second log data corresponding to the first log data and including log information corresponding to processing of the call;

generating third log data corresponding to the first log data and the second log data; and

storing the third log data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the call to a data processing service is made by a first data processing service, and further comprising delivering the service response to the first data processing service.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second log data includes information corresponding to a network latency of transmitting the request message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second log data includes information corresponding to the processing time of the data processing service.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the third log data includes calling an Application Monitor function.

6. A method for service call data logging, comprising:

intercepting a request message for a data processing service, the request message including first log data and a call to the data processing service;

generating second log data corresponding to the first log data in response to said intercepting a request message and before the call is received by the data processing service, wherein generating the second log data includes calling an Application Monitor function;

delivering the call to the data processing service;

intercepting a service response corresponding to the call from the data processing service;

generating third log data corresponding to the second log data and including log information corresponding to processing of the call;

transmitting a response message corresponding to the request message, the response message including the service response and the third log data; and

storing the third log data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the call request message for a data processing service is made by a first data processing service.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the second log data includes information corresponding to a network latency of the intercepted request message.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the third log data includes information corresponding to the time of transmitting the response message.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the third log data includes calling an Application Monitor function.

11. A method for service call data logging, comprising:

intercepting a call from a first data processing service to a second data processing service;

generating first log data corresponding to the intercepted call;

transmitting a request message to the second data processing service, the request message including the first log data and the intercepted call;

intercepting the request message;

generating second log data corresponding to the request message;

delivering the call to the second data processing service;

intercepting a service response corresponding to the call from the second data processing service;

generating third log data corresponding to the second log data and including log information corresponding to processing of the call;

transmitting a response message to the first data processing service corresponding to the request message, the response message including the service response and the third log data;

storing the third log data; and

intercepting the response message, and generating a fourth log data corresponding to the response message and a network latency.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising delivering the service response to the first data processing service.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second log data includes information corresponding to a network latency of the transmitting the request message to the second data processing service.