Telemetry definition system

• US 11,288,245 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2015
• Issued: 03/29/2022
• 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: Crawford, Brian R., Lewis, Amy M., Shahani, Ravi C., Qadir, Mahmood G., Kozaczynski, Wojtek, Zintel, William M., Joy, George, Ellis, Brian P., Yip, Ken Ming-Kin, Titov, Vitaliy, Todd, James O., Russinovich, Mark E., Sabella, Vito J., Lang, Christopher M., Johnson, Jonathan K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Santos, Pedro J
• Application Number:
  US14/885,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20170109379A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,356 Days
• Field of Search: 70799901, 707803, 7079991, 707999104, 707756, 707755
• 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 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• 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 first set of fields in a schema of an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system, and populating a second set of fields in the schema selected by an event author.

Claims

1. A method of operating a telemetry system to collect telemetry data of an instrumented application, the method comprising:

implementing an event ingestion pipeline to shuttle events through multiple components of the telemetry system;

determining quality of the event ingestion pipeline by ingesting telemetry data to a first section schema of a schema in an event definition;

automatically populating a first set of fields in the first section schema with the telemetry data from the instrumented application using a logging library of the telemetry system, the first set of fields including fields that are universal to events that flow through the telemetry system, the instrumented application augmented with code to generate data to monitor or measure performance of specific user activity of the instrumented application after a development of the instrumented application; and

populating a second set of fields in a second section schema of the schema selected by a developer during the development of the instrumented application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein populating the second set of fields includes preselected fields from the telemetry system.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the preselected fields are populated with data common to a plurality of applications.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the preselected fields include a predefined name and data type.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein populating the second set of fields includes custom fields from the developer.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the custom fields include custom name and custom data type.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first set of fields is automatically populated with data common to all events.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the data common to all events includes client system data.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the first set of fields in the schema includes an event envelope semantic.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein populating the second set of fields includes preselected fields from the telemetry system and custom fields from the developer.

11. A telemetry system to collect telemetry data of an instrumented application, comprising:

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

implement an event ingestion pipeline to shuttle events through multiple components of the telemetry system;

determine quality of the event ingestion pipeline by ingesting telemetry data to a first section schema of a schema in an event definition;

automatically populate a first set of fields in the first section schema with the telemetry data from the instrumented application using a logging library of the telemetry system, the first set of fields including fields that are universal to events that flow through the telemetry system, the instrumented application augmented with code to generate data to monitor or measure performance of specific user activity of the instrumented application after a development of the instrumented application; and

populate a second set of fields in a second section schema of the schema selected by a developer during the development of the instrumented application.

12. The telemetry system of claim 11 wherein populating the second set of fields includes preselected fields from the telemetry system.

13. The telemetry system of claim 11 wherein populating the second set of fields includes custom fields from the developer.

14. The telemetry system of claim 11 wherein the telemetry system communicates with an instrumented application over a computer network.

15. The telemetry system of claim 14 wherein the instrumented application initiates communication with the telemetry system.

16. The telemetry system of claim 14 wherein the logging library includes a code library corresponding with a platform of the instrumented application.

17. A computer readable storage medium, which does not include a transitory propagating signal, storing computer executable instructions for controlling a computing device to perform a method comprising:

implementing an event ingestion pipeline to shuttle events through multiple components of the telemetry system;

determining quality of the event ingestion pipeline by ingesting telemetry data to a first section schema of a schema in an event definition;

automatically populating a first set of fields in the first section schema with telemetry data using a logging library of a telemetry system, the telemetry system to collect the telemetry data from an instrumented application, the first set of fields including fields that are universal to events that flow through the telemetry system, the instrumented application augmented with code to generate data to monitor or measure performance of specific user activity of the instrumented application after a development of the instrumented application; and

populating a second set of fields in a second section schema of the schema selected by a developer during the development of the instrumented application.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein an event is represented in a data-interchange format.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the first set of fields in the schema includes an event envelope semantic.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein populating the second set of fields includes preselected fields from the telemetry system and custom fields from the developer.