Service analytics

• US 10,382,290 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NetScout Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: NetScout Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Agrawal, Amreesh, Kumar, Gaurava
• Primary Examiner(s): Sall, El Hadji M
• Application Number:
  US15/584,774
• Publication Number:
  US 20180324058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/142 using statistical or mathematical methods
• 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 41/5025 by proactively reacting to service quality change, e.g. by reconfiguration after service quality degradation or upgrade
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/062 related to network traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0882 Utilisation of link capacity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]

Abstract

An Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) data set related to a monitored service is received from a plurality of interfaces. Performance of a monitored service is analyzed within and outside of a context of the performed service using the acquired ASI data set. At least one of one or more relationship dependencies associated with a monitored service is determined. Performance of each of the at least one dependencies is analyzed using the acquired ASI data set. A report including one or more ASI data set values indicative of service performance degradation is generated based on the analysis.

Claims

1. A method for reporting service performance statistics in a network, the method comprising steps of:

receiving, by a processor, an Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) data set related to a monitored service from a plurality of interfaces and sending a first copy of received ASI data to a device for analysis and a second copy of the received ASI data to a storage device;

analyzing performance of a monitored service within a context of the performed service using the acquired ASI data set;

analyzing performance of the monitored service outside of the context of a performed service using the received ASI data set;

determining at least one of one or more relationship dependencies associated with the monitored service;

analyzing performance of each of the at least one relationship dependencies using the acquired ASI data set; and

generating a report comprising one or more ASI data set values indicative of service performance degradation based on the analysis.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of analyzing performance of the monitored service within the context of the performed service comprises analyzing one or more servers associated with the monitored service and analyzing an application program associated with the monitored service.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of analyzing performance further comprises analyzing load-balancing of the one or more servers associated with the monitored service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of analyzing performance of the monitored service outside of the context of the performed service comprises analyzing one or more client communities associated with the monitored service and analyzing a network associated with the monitored service.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein analyzing performance further comprises analyzing configuration of each of the client communities associated with the monitored service.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein analyzing performance of the application program further comprises analyzing one or more detected error codes issued by the application program associated with the monitored service.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein analyzing performance further comprises identifying one or more segments within the network potentially associated with the performance degradation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of analyzing performance of each of the at least one relationship dependencies further comprises analyzing information about which network component the monitored service depends upon.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the at least one dependency comprises one or more service enabler functions associated with the monitored service.

10. A network device for reporting service performance statistics in a network, the network device comprising:

a network interface configured to receive program instructions to receive an Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) data set related to a monitored service in the network from one or more network monitoring devices positioned at one or more locations in the network, and

     1) send a first received ASI data set in real-time to a service monitoring engine and

     2) send a second received ASI data set to a memory device; and

a service monitoring engine configured to;

analyze performance of the monitored service within a context of a performed service using the received ASI data set;

analyze performance of the monitored service outside of the context of the performed service using the acquired ASI data set;

determine at least one of one or more relationship dependencies associated with the monitored service;

analyze performance of each of the at least one relationship dependencies using the acquired ASI data set; and

generate a report comprising one or more ASI data set values indicative of service performance degradation based on the analysis.

11. The network device of claim 10, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance of the monitored service within the context of the performed service is further configured to analyze one or more servers associated with the monitored service and analyze an application program associated with the monitored service.

12. The network device of claim 11, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance is further configured to analyze load-balancing of the one or more servers associated with the monitored service.

13. The network device of claim 10, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance of the monitored service outside of the context of the performed service is further configured to analyze one or more client communities and a network associated with the monitored service.

14. The network device of claim 13, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance is further configured to analyze configuration of each of the client communities associated with the monitored service.

15. The network device of claim 11, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance of the application program is further configured to analyze one or more detected error codes issued by the application program associated with the monitored service.

16. The network device of claim 13, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance is further configured to identify one or more segments within the network potentially associated with the performance degradation.

17. The network device of claim 10, wherein the service monitoring engine configured to analyze performance of each of the at least one relationship dependencies is further configured to analyze information about which network component the monitored service depends upon.

18. The network device of claim 17, wherein the at least one relationship dependency comprises one or more service enabler functions associated with the monitored service.

19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium structured to store instructions, the instructions when executed, cause a processor in a network device in a computer network to:

receive an Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) data set related to a monitored service from a plurality of interfaces and send a first copy of received ASI data to a device for analysis and a second copy of the received ASI data to a storage device;

analyze performance of the monitored service within a context of the performed service using the acquired ASI data set;

analyze performance of the monitored service outside of the context of a performed service using the received ASI data set;

determine at least one of one or more relationship dependencies associated with the monitored service;

analyze performance of each of the at least one relationship dependencies using the acquired ASI data set; and

generate a report comprising one or more ASI data set values indicative of service performance degradation based on the analysis.

20. The storage medium of claim 19, wherein the instructions that cause the processor to analyze performance of the monitored service within the context of the performed service further cause the processor to analyze one or more servers associated with the monitored service and analyze an application program associated with the monitored service.