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Cloud-based platform instrumentation and monitoring system for maintenance of user-configured programs

AssigneeServiceNow, Inc.

InventorJared Laethem

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Abstract

Systems and methods for using instrumentation for maintaining user-configured programs in a cloud computing environment are herein disclosed as comprising, in an implementation, intercepting operation data pertaining to the user-configured program, including a start time, an execution time interval, and an origin of the operation, canonicalizing the intercepted operation data by stripping operation-specific variable data from the operation data, aggregating the canonicalized operation data based on the start time, the canonicalized operation data, and the origin of the operation, and storing the aggregated operation data within a time series database in the execution time interval based on the start time.

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Dependent claims

A cloud computing system, comprising:

a server comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory includes code executable by the processor comprising:
platform software comprising at least an application layer and a database layer, wherein the platform software permits a user to configure a program using user-configurable scripts and user-configurable database schema;
a time series database configured to store operation data for a plurality of discrete time intervals;
and
an instrumentation routine configured to:
intercept operation data pertaining to an operation of a user-configured program, the operation data comprising at least a start time, an execution time interval, and an origin;
strip operation-specific variable data from the operation data to generate stripped operation data for the operation such that after stripping the operation-specific variable data from the operation data, the operation data includes one or more canonicalized representations of the operation associated with respective executions of the operation by the user-configured program;
aggregate the operation data based on the start time, the stripped operation data, and the origin to form aggregated operation data;
and
store the aggregated operation data in the time series database in the execution time interval based at least in part on the start time, wherein the aggregated operation data relates to performance metrics of the cloud computing system.

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A method for executing an instrumentation routine on at least one server for maintaining a user-configured program, comprising:

intercepting, by software executed on the at least one server, operation data pertaining to an operation of the user-configured program, wherein the operation data comprises at least a start time, an execution time interval, and an origin;
stripping operation-specific variable data from the operation data to generate stripped operation data for the operation, wherein the operation-specific variable data comprises data associated with one or more parameters from a first execution of the operation by the user-configured program that are different from a second execution of the operation by the user-configured program;
aggregating the operation data based on the start time, the stripped operation data, and the origin of the operation to form aggregated operation data;
and
storing, in a time series database executed on the server, the aggregated operation data in the execution time interval based on the start time, wherein the aggregated operation data relates to performance metrics of the operation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/013,483Filed 2 Feb 2016
Published: US 2017/0220610 A13 Aug 2017
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06F 16/22
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 11/3006
Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored: where the computing system is…
G06F 11/3419
For performance assessment: by assessing time
G06F 11/3452
Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of…:…

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