Correlation of distributed business transactions

• US 8,935,395 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2013
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• 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:
  US14/069,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052857A1
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/224, 717/127, 718/101, 719/317
• US Class Current: 709/224
• 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 first parameter may be received from a first computer by a server. A second parameter may be received from a second computer by the server. A distributed application processed on the first computer and the second computer may be correlated based on the first parameter and the second parameter.

Claims

1. A method for correlating a distributed transaction, comprising:

receiving a first parameter from a first computer by a server;

receiving a second parameter from a second computer by the server; and

correlating a distributed application processed on the first computer and the second computer based on the first parameter and the second parameter, wherein correlating includes generating a mapping of the distributed transaction by the server based on the first parameter and second parameter received from the first computer and the second computer,

wherein a first agent detects a call to the second computer by the first computer and provides a distributed transaction call chain in the call, the call chain including a sequence of execution for the distributed transaction, the sequence of execution identifying the first computer and previous computers that have executed the present distributed transaction,

wherein the first agent on the first computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the first computer and a second agent on the second computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the second computer.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving runtime data from the first computer associated with the distributed transaction;

receiving runtime data from the second computer associated with the distributed transaction; and

correlating the received runtime data based on the correlation of the distributed application.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a call from the second computer, the call including a first name and a second name, the first name received by the second computer from the first computer; and

transmitting the second name to the first computer.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first parameter and the second parameter include the second name and are received after transmitting the second name.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the first name and second name identify the second computer or an application running on the second computer.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein second name is transmitted to the first computer to be used in place of the first name for subsequent inter-computer communication.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first parameter includes a call chain of servers performing the distributed transaction.

8. The method of claim 1, receiving the first parameter from the first agent on the first computer.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the call is detected using instrumented byte code.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the call is detected using a hook inserted into an application that processes the call.

11. The method of claim 1, receiving the second parameter from the second agent on the second computer.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein correlating includes linking calls between a plurality of servers based on a plurality of parameters received from one or more agents associated with the plurality of servers, the plurality of servers including the first computer and the second computer.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the first parameter and second parameter are received from the first computer and the second computer by one or more controllers.

12. A method for correlating a distributed transaction, comprising:

receiving a first parameter from a first computer by a server;

receiving a second parameter from a second computer by the server; and

correlating a distributed application processed on the first computer and the second computer based on the first parameter and the second parameter, wherein correlating includes generating a mapping of the distributed transaction by the server based on the first parameter and second parameter received from the first computer and the second computer

wherein a second agent detects a call from the first computer to the second computer and retrieves a distributed transaction call chain from the call, the call chain including a sequence of execution for the distributed transaction, the sequence of execution identifying the first computer and previous computers that have executed the present distributed transaction

wherein a first agent on the first computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the first computer and the second agent on the second computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the second computer.

15. 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:

receiving a first parameter from a first computer by a server;

receiving a second parameter from a second computer by the server; and

correlating a distributed application processed on the first computer and the second computer based on the first parameter and the second parameter, wherein correlating includes generating a mapping of the distributed transaction by the server based on the first parameter and second parameter received from the first computer and the second computer,

wherein a first agent detects a call to the second computer by the first computer and provides a distributed transaction call chain in the call, the call chain including a sequence of execution for the distributed transaction, the sequence of execution identifying the first computer and previous computers that have executed the present distributed transaction,

wherein the first agent on the first computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the first computer and a second agent on the second computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the second computer.

16. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

one or more modules stored in memory and executed by the processor to;

receive a first parameter from a first computer by a server;

receive a second parameter from a second computer by the server; and

correlate a distributed application processed on the first computer and the second computer based on the first parameter and the second parameter, including generating a mapping of the distributed transaction by the server based on the first parameter and second parameter received from the first computer and the second computer,

wherein a first agent detects a call to the second computer by the first computer and provides a distributed transaction call chain in the call, the call chain including a sequence of execution for the distributed transaction, the sequence of execution identifying the first computer and previous that have executed the distributed transaction,

wherein the first agent on the first computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the first computer and a second agent on the second computer adds an identifier to the call chain after the request is received by the second computer.