Flexible and safe monitoring of computers
First Claim
1. In a computing environment, a system comprising:
- one or more processors;
a dynamic query engine, implemented on the one or more processors, comprising;
an agent that runs one or more queries on a server to collect monitoring data from one or more data sources; and
a scheduler that monitors resource usage of the agent with respect to a policy-specified resource budget and dynamically modifies at least one of the one or more queries or monitoring parameters based on the resource usage of the agent in order to remain within the policy-specified resource budget as the agent continues to collect the monitoring data.
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Abstract
Described is a server monitoring technology that is scalable to large numbers of servers, e.g., in a datacenter. Agents on servers run queries to monitor data sources for that server, such as performance counters and other events. The agents monitor their resource usage and those of monitored events to stay within an administrator-specified resource budget (policy), e.g., by modifying the running queries and/or monitoring parameters. A controller receives results of the monitoring, analyzes the results, and takes action as needed with respect to server operation and monitoring. The controller may dynamically update an agent'"'"'s queries, monitoring parameters and/or monitored data post-processing operations. The controller may issue alerts and reports, including alerts indicative of inter-server problems between two or more servers.
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20 Claims
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1. In a computing environment, a system comprising:
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one or more processors; a dynamic query engine, implemented on the one or more processors, comprising; an agent that runs one or more queries on a server to collect monitoring data from one or more data sources; and a scheduler that monitors resource usage of the agent with respect to a policy-specified resource budget and dynamically modifies at least one of the one or more queries or monitoring parameters based on the resource usage of the agent in order to remain within the policy-specified resource budget as the agent continues to collect the monitoring data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In a computing environment, a system comprising:
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one or more servers; one or more agents implemented on the one or more servers and operating to; collect data related to monitoring the one or more servers via one or more queries; monitor resource usage of the one or more agents during the data collection; enforce a policy-specified budget during the data collection, including to adjust at least one of a query plan or a task schedule for an agent based on the monitored resource usage associated with the agent; and process the collected data into monitoring results for the one or more servers. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. In a computing environment, a method performed on at least one processor comprising:
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running, by a dynamic query engine, one or more queries on a server to collect monitoring data from one or more data sources associated with the server; monitoring resource usage of the dynamic query engine with respect to a policy-specified resource budget during the monitoring data collection; and modifying at least one of the one or more queries or monitoring parameters during the monitoring data collection based on the monitored resource usage in order to remain within the policy-specified resource budget as the dynamic query engine continues to collect the monitoring data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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