Remote service failure monitoring and protection using throttling

A computer-implemented failure monitoring system configured to be used with a first computer system having at least one server, the first computer system configured to communicate with a plurality of second computer systems and with at least one resource provider system having a plurality of resource servers and configured to provide one or more services to the first computer system, the computer-implemented failure monitoring system comprising:

• a computer storage device operative to store one or more failure parameters that are indicative of one or more failure conditions;
• and
• one or more computer processors implementing:
• a monitoring component operative to obtain information regarding service requests in one or more categories of service requests transmitted by the at least one server to the at least one resource provider system for which corresponding responses have not been timely received by the at least one server from the at least one resource provider system;
• an analysis component operative to compare the information to the one or more failure parameters and to determine whether at least one failure condition exists;
• and
• a throttling component operative to selectively inhibit transmission by the at least one server of service requests in the one or more categories corresponding to the at least one failure condition while the at least one failure condition exists, the one or more categories comprising at least one of the following categories:
• service requests transmitted to a resource provider system;
• service requests transmitted to a group of resource servers of the plurality of resource servers;
• service requests for a type of service;
• service requests to a group of resource servers of the plurality of resource servers for a type of service;
• service requests to each application programming interface (API) of a resource provider system.

A computer-implemented method for use with a first computer system having at least one server, the first computer system configured to communicate with a plurality of second computer systems and with at least one resource provider system having a plurality of resource servers configured to provide one or more services to the first computer system, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• storing one or more failure parameters that are indicative of one or more failure conditions;
• obtaining information regarding service requests transmitted by the at least one server to the at least one resource provider system in one or more categories of service requests for which corresponding responses have not been timely received by the at least one server from the at least one resource provider system, the one or more categories comprising at least one of the following categories:
• service requests transmitted to a resource server of the plurality of resource servers;
• service requests transmitted to a group of resource servers of the plurality of resource servers;
• service requests for a type of service;
• service requests to a group of resource servers of the plurality of resource servers for a type of service;
• service requests to each application programming interface (API) of the at least one resource provider system;
• comparing the information to the one or more failure parameters;
• determining, in response to the comparison, whether at least one failure condition exists;
• and
• inhibiting transmission of service requests corresponding to the at least one failure condition by the at least one server while the at least one failure condition exists.