Analytic dashboard with user interface for producing a single chart statistical correlation from source and target charts during a load test

• US 9,495,473 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2010
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Soasta Incorporated (Akamai Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gardner, Kenneth C., Broda, Tal, Cosby, Kendall, Esau, Darrell, Hemmert, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Molina, Hugo
• Application Number:
  US12/927,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20120017165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,189 Days
• Field of Search: 715/736
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A processor-implemented method includes providing an analytic dashboard with a graphical user interface (GUI) that outputs aggregated results streaming in real-time of a load test performed on a target website. Responsive to input of a user on the GUI, the input comprising selection of a source chart and a target chart, a single chart is automatically generated that represents either a combination or a statistical correlation of the source and target charts. The single chart has a left y-axis and an x-axis. The combination or the statistical correlation of the single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses. A visual representation of the single chart is then produced on the analytic dashboard.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing an analytic dashboard with a graphical user interface (GUI) that outputs aggregated results streaming in real-time of a load test as the load test is being performed on a target website, the aggregated results including statistics which are graphically displayed in a plurality of charts, the statistics being periodically computed, in part, by a plurality of load servers that implement the load test, each load server including an embedded component that periodically computes the statistics from raw data received from the target website, the aggregated results displayed in the charts changing in real-time as the load test progresses;

responsive to a user interface (UI) input on the GUI as the load test progresses, the UI input comprising dragging and dropping a source chart onto a target chart, automatically generating a single chart that represents a statistical correlation of the source and target charts, the single chart having a left y-axis and an x-axis, the statistical correlation of the single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses; and

producing a graphical representation of the single chart on the analytic dashboard, the single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the UI input further comprises selection of the statistical correlation from a menu presented via the GUI.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising responsive to additional drag and drop UI input automatically generating a new single chart that combines the single chart with another chart, the new source chart having a y-axis that matches, in unit-type, either the left y-axis or the right y-axis of the single chart, the new single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, for the statistical correlation, matching each data point from the source and target charts based on a common x-axis unit-type.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the common x-axis unit-type is time.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the left y-axis associated with the source chart and the x-axis is associated with the target chart.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the analytic dashboard is provided by a browser application.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the UI input comprises a touch-based command.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, when executed the computer program being operable to:

provide an analytic dashboard with a graphical user interface (GUI) that outputs aggregated results streaming in real-time of a load test as the load test is being performed on a target website, the aggregated results including statistics which are graphically displayed in a plurality of charts, the statistics being periodically computed, in part, by a plurality of load servers that implement the load test, each load server including an embedded component that periodically computes the statistics from raw data received from the target website, the aggregated results displayed in the charts changing in real-time as the load test progresses;

responsive to user interface (UI) input comprising dragging and dropping a source chart onto a target chart on the GUI as the load test progresses, automatically generate a single chart that represents a statistical correlation of the source and target charts, the single chart having a left y-axis and an x-axis, the statistical correlation of the single chart changing in time as the load test progresses; and

produce a graphical representation of the single chart on the analytic dashboard, the single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the computer program, when executed, is further operable to automatically generate, responsive to additional drag and drop UI input, a new single chart that combines the single chart with another chart, the new source chart having a y-axis that matches, in unit-type, either the left y-axis or the right y-axis of the single chart, the new single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the computer program product, when executed, is further operable to match, for the statistical correlation, each data point from the source and target charts based on a common x-axis unit-type.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the common x-axis unit-type is time.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the UI input comprises a touch-based command signal.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of 9 wherein the UI input further comprises selection of the statistical correlation from a menu presented via the GUI.

15. An apparatus comprising:

a display; and

a program that runs on a computer to produce a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, the GUI providing an analytic dashboard that outputs aggregated results on the display steaming in real-time of a load test as the load test is being performed on a target website, the aggregated results including statistics periodically computed by a plurality of load servers that implement the load test, each load server including an embedded component that periodically computes the statistics from raw data received from the target website, the GUI allowing a user to generate user interface (UI) input comprising dragging and dropping a source chart onto a target chart as the load test progresses, responsive to the UI input the program;

(a) automatically generating a single chart that represents a statistical correlation of the source and target charts, the single chart having a left y-axis and an x-axis, the single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses, and (b) producing a visual representation of the single chart on the analytic dashboard, the visualization changing in real-time as the load test progresses.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the UI input further comprises selection of the statistical correlation from a menu presented via the GUI.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the program, responsive to additional UI input, automatically generates a new single chart that combines the single chart with another chart, the new source chart having a y-axis that matches, in unit-type, either the left y-axis or the right y-axis of t he single chart, the new single chart changing in real-time as the load test progresses.

18. The apparatus of claim 15 further comprising, for the statistical correlation, matching each data point from the source and target charts based on a common x-axis unit-type.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the common x-axis unit-type is time.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the left y-axis is associated with the source chart and the x-axis is associated with the target chart.

21. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein delta changes in the source and target charts are streamed into the single chart.

22. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the source chart is provided from an external data source.

23. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the input comprises a touch-based command.