Flexible and Safe Monitoring of Computers
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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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40 Claims
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21. In a computing environment, a system comprising:
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a computing machine; a dynamic query engine, implemented on the computing machine, operating to monitor its own resource consumption as it monitors the computing machine using one or more queries and collects monitoring data from one or more data sources via one or more input adapters. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. 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, an individual agent operating to; collect data via one or more data sources of a server using one or more queries related to monitoring the server on which the individual agent is implemented; monitor resource usage of the individual agent during the data collection; enforce a resource consumption budget relative to the individual agent during the data collection; and process the collected data into monitoring results for the server on which the individual agent is implemented. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. 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, the monitoring data including at least one of event data, trace data, log data, performance data, provider data, instrumentation data, network data, or network traffic data; and monitoring resource usage of the dynamic query engine with respect to a policy-specified resource budget during the monitoring data collection. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40)
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