Transaction correlation using three way handshake

• US 9,015,278 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2013
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AppDynamics, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bansal, Jyoti, Sunkara, Bhaskar
• Primary Examiner(s): Mejia, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US14/075,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/224, 717/127, 718/101, 719/317
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/55 Testing of service level quality, e.g. simulating service usage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• 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

The present technology monitors a web application provided by one or more services. A service may be provided by applications. The monitoring system provides end-to-end business transaction visibility, identifies performance issues quickly and has dynamical scaling capability across monitored systems including cloud systems, virtual systems and physical infrastructures. A method for communicating data between servers may detect by a first computer a request to a second computer. The request and a first name may be sent to the second computer by the first computer. The first name and request information may be sent to a server by the first computer. The first name and a second computer identifier may be transmitted to the server by the second computer.

Claims

1. A method for communicating data between servers, comprising:

detecting by a first computer a request to a second computer;

sending the request and an unknown service identifier to the second computer by the first computer, the unknown service identifier generated by the first computer to identify the second computer in response to determining that an identity of the second computer is not known to the first computer, wherein the unknown service identifier is part of a call chain sent from the first computer to the second computer;

transmitting the unknown service identifier and request information to a server by the first computer;

transmitting the unknown service identifier and a second computer identifier to the server by the second computer, the second computer identifier identifying the second computer; and

receiving the second computer identifier by the first computer from the server, the first computer sending a subsequent request to the second computer with the second computer identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting by the second computer that the first computer does not recognize the second computer based on the unknown service identifier received by the second computer from the first computer,

wherein the unknown service identifier and second computer identifier transmitted by the second computer is in response to the detection by the second computer.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving from the server by the first computer the second computer identifier.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computer associates the second computer identifier with requests to the second computer as part of a distributed transaction.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating the unknown service identifier for the second computer by the first computer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computer includes an first agent, the first agent detecting the request and transmitting the unknown service identifier and request information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second computer includes a second agent, the second agent transmitting the unknown service identifier and a second computer identifier.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is detected using byte code instrumentation.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is detected using a hook embedded in an application that processes the request.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the request is detected using a hook embedded in an application that processes the request.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for correlating a distributed transaction, the method comprising:

detecting by a first computer a request to a second computer;

sending the request and an unknown service identifier to the second computer by the first computer, the unknown service identifier generated by the first computer to identify the second computer in response to determining that an identity of the second computer is not known to the first computer, wherein the unknown service identifier is part of a call chain sent from the first computer to the second computer;

transmitting the unknown service identifier and request information to a server by the first computer;

transmitting the unknown service identifier and a second computer identifier to the server by the second computer, the second computer identifier identifying the second computer; and

receiving the second computer identifier by the first computer from the server, the first computer sending a subsequent request to the second computer with the second computer identifier.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting by the second computer that the first computer does not recognize the second computer based on the unknown service identifier received by the second computer from the first computer,

wherein the unknown service identifier and second computer identifier transmitted by the second computer is in response to the detection by the second computer.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving from the server by the first computer the second computer identifier.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first computer associates the second computer identifier with requests to the second computer as part of a distributed transaction.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising generating the unknown service identifier for the second computer by the first computer.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first computer includes an first agent, the first agent detecting the request and transmitting the unknown service identifier and request information.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the second computer includes a second agent, the second agent transmitting the unknown service identifier and a second computer identifier.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the request is detected using byte code instrumentation.

19. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory associated with each of the one or more processors; and

one or more modules stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors to detect by a first computer a request to a second computer, send the request and a unknown service identifier to the second computer by the first computer, the unknown service identifier generated by the first computer to identify the second computer in response to determining that an identity of the second computer is not known to the first computer, wherein the unknown service identifier is part of a call chain sent from the first computer to the second computer, transmit the unknown service identifier and request information to a server by the first computer, transmit the unknown service identifier and a second computer identifier to the server by the second computer, the second computer identifier identifying the second computer, and receive the second computer identifier by the first computer from the server, the first computer sending a subsequent request to the second computer with the second computer identifier.

20. The system of claim 19, the one or more modules executed to detect by the second computer that the first computer does not recognize the second computer based on the unknown service identifier received by the second computer from the first computer, wherein the unknown service identifier and second computer identifier transmitted by the second computer is in response to the detection by the second computer.

21. The system of claim 20, the one or more modules executed to receive from the server by the first computer the second computer identifier.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the first computer associates the second computer identifier with requests to the second computer as part of a distributed transaction.

23. The system of claim 19, the one or more modules executed to generate the unknown service identifier for the second computer by the first computer.

24. The system of claim 19, wherein the first computer includes an first agent, the first agent detecting the request and transmitting the unknown service identifier and request information.

25. The system of claim 19, wherein the second computer includes a second agent, the second agent transmitting the unknown service identifier and a second computer identifier.

26. The system of claim 19, wherein the request is detected using byte code instrumentation.

27. The system of claim 19, wherein the request is detected using a hook embedded in an application that processes the request.