Methods and apparatus for configuring granularity of key performance indicators provided by a monitored component

A non-transitory machine-readable recordable storage medium, wherein one or more software programs when executed by one or more processing devices implement the following steps:

• specifying, by a software product, a granularity of a key performance indicator to be monitored by a monitored component embedded in said software product, wherein said monitored component is provided by a different entity than a provider of said software product, wherein said key performance indicator comprises a plurality of monitored contexts to be monitored, wherein said software product specifies said granularity using an application programming interface;
• instantiating, using said at least one processing device executing said software product and based on said specified granularity, at least one distinct instance of a statistics collector object to execute for each monitored context of said plurality of monitored contexts of said key performance indicator provided by said monitored component embedded in said software product, wherein each of said at least one distinct instance of said statistics collector object is executed by said at least one processing device executing said software product, wherein each distinct instance of said statistics collector object collects information for a different context of said key performance indicator such that a given distinct instance of said statistics collector object collects information for said monitored context of said key performance indicator corresponding to said given instance and updates, using said at least one processing device executing said software product, an indicator value stored in at least one record in at least one memory when an activity occurs for said corresponding key performance indicator;
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• providing, using said at least one processing device executing said software product, said indicator value for a given context of said key performance indicator to a monitoring object.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
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• at least one processing device, coupled to the memory, operative to implement the following steps:
• specify, by a software product, a granularity of a key performance indicator to be monitored by a monitored component embedded in said software product, wherein said monitored component is provided by a different entity than a provider of said software product, wherein said key performance indicator comprises a plurality of monitored contexts to be monitored, wherein said software product specifies said granularity using an application programming interface;
• instantiate, using said at least one processing device executing said software product and based on said specified granularity, at least one distinct instance of a statistics collector object to execute for each monitored context of said plurality of monitored contexts of said key performance indicator provided by said monitored component embedded in said software product, wherein each of said at least one distinct instance of said statistics collector object is executed by said at least one processing device executing said software product, wherein each distinct instance of said statistics collector object collects information for a different context of said key performance indicator such that a given distinct instance of said statistics collector object collects information for said monitored context of said key performance indicator corresponding to said given instance and updates, using said at least one processing device executing said software product, an indicator value stored in at least one record in at least one memory when an activity occurs for said corresponding key performance indicator;
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• provide, using said at least one processing device executing said software product, said indicator value for a given context of said key performance indicator to a monitoring object.

A monitored component executed by at least one processing device for collecting a key performance indicator related to execution of a software product, comprising:

• a plurality of distinct statistics collector object instances for embedding in said software product, wherein said plurality of distinct statistics collector object instances are executed by said at least one processing device executing said software product, wherein said monitored component is provided by a different entity than a provider of said software product, wherein said key performance indicator comprises a plurality of monitored contexts to be monitored and wherein each instance of the plurality of distinct instances of said statistics collector object collects information for a different context of said plurality of monitored contexts of key performance indicator such that a given instance of said statistics collector object collects information for a given monitored context of said plurality of monitored contexts of said key performance indicator corresponding to said given instance and updates, using said at least one processing device, an indicator value stored in at least one record in at least one memory when an activity occurs for said corresponding key performance indicator;
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• an application programming interface (API) used by said software product to instantiate, based on a specification by said software product of a granularity of said key performance indicator to be monitored by said monitored component, one of said plurality of distinct instances of said statistics collector object for each monitored context of said key performance indicator to provide, using said at least one processing device executing said software product, said indicator value for a given context of said key performance indicator to a monitoring object, wherein said software product specifies said granularity using said API.