Methods and systems to compound alerts in a distributed computing system

A system to compound alerts of a multistage process executed in a distributed computing system, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more data-storage devices;
• and
• machine-readable instructions stored in the one or more data-storage devices that when executed using the one or more processors controls the system to perform operations comprising:
• searching a log-message database stored in a data-storage device to identify log-message files generated by event sources of the multistage process;
• for each log-message file,
• searching the log-message file for a first log message that satisfies a first rule of multistage process rules that confirms completion of a first stage of the multistage process,
• when a first log message that satisfies the first rule is identified, incrementing a first stage counter,
• searching the log-message file for a second log message that satisfies a second rule of the multistage process rules that confirms completion of a second stage of the multistage process, and
• when a second log message that satisfies the second rule is identified, incrementing a second stage counter;
• and
• when the second stage counter is less than the first stage counter, generating a compound alert indicating that not all stages of the multistage process completed successfully.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with machine-readable instructions that implement a method carried out by one or more processors of a computer system to perform operations comprising:

• searching a log-message database stored in a data-storage device to identify a log-message file of an event source that runs in a computer system of a distributed computing system;
• searching the log-message file for a first log message that satisfies a first rule of multistage process rules that confirms completion of a first stage of a multistage process;
• when a first log message that satisfies the first rule is identified, searching the log-message file for a second log message that satisfies a second rule of the multistage process rules that confirms completion of a second stage of the multistage process;
• and
• generating a compound alert indicating that the process completed successfully when a log message of the log-message file satisfies the second rule.