US 11,893,428 B1Granted

Tracing service interactions without global transaction identifiers

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorFelix Elliger

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for tracing service interactions without global transaction identifiers are disclosed. A service monitoring system receives an event message from a first service in a service-oriented system. The event message comprises one or more elements of data from a body of a service request from an upstream service. The first service initiates a sub-task associated with the service request. The service monitoring system receives one or more additional event messages from one or more additional services. The additional event message(s) comprise one or more additional elements of data from one or more additional service requests associated with one or more additional sub-tasks. The service monitoring system determines, based (at least in part) on the element(s) of data in the event message and the additional element(s) of data in the additional event message(s), that the sub-task and the additional sub-task(s) are associated with a higher-level task.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a plurality of computing devices comprising respective processors and memory and configured to implement a service-oriented system, wherein the service-oriented system comprises a plurality of services including a first service and one or more additional services, and wherein the first service is configured to:
receive, from an upstream service of the plurality of services, a service request for a sub-task;
initiate the sub-task responsive to receiving the service request;
and
send, from the first service of the service-oriented system to a service monitoring system responsive to initiating the sub-task by the first service, an event message comprising one or more elements of data from a body of the service request, wherein the service monitoring system is external to the first service;
and
one or more computing devices comprising respective processors and memory and configured to implement the service monitoring system, wherein the service monitoring system is configured to:
receive the event message from the first service;
receive one or more additional event messages from the one or more additional services, wherein the one or more additional event messages comprise one or more additional elements of data from bodies of one or more additional service requests received by the one or more additional services for one or more additional sub-tasks that are initiated by the one or more additional services responsive to receiving the one or more additional service requests;
based at least in part on both:
the one or more elements of data in the event message, wherein the one or more elements of data are from the service request received by the first service, and
the one or more additional elements of data in the one or more additional event messages, wherein the one or more additional elements of data are from the one or more additional service requests received by the one or more additional services:
determine, by the service monitoring system, that the sub-task initiated by the first service and the one or more additional sub-tasks initiated by the one or more additional services are different components of a same particular higher-level task;
and
provide metrics or other information for the sub-task and one or more of the additional sub-tasks of the higher-level task.

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A method, comprising:

receiving, by a service monitoring system, an event message from a first service in a service-oriented system, wherein the event message comprises one or more elements of data from a body of a service request, wherein the service request is received by the first service from an upstream service in the service-oriented system, and wherein the first service initiates a task associated with the service request, and wherein the service monitoring system is external to the first service;
receiving, by the service monitoring system, one or more additional event messages from one or more additional services in the service-oriented system, wherein the one or more additional event messages comprise one or more additional elements of data from bodies of one or more additional service requests received by the one or more additional services for one or more additional tasks that are initiated by the one or more additional services responsive to receiving the one or more additional service requests;
determining, by the service monitoring system based at least in part on both:
the one or more elements of data in the event message, wherein the one or more elements of data are from the service request received by the first service, and
the one or more additional elements of data in the one or more additional event messages, wherein the one or more additional elements of data are from the one or more additional service requests received by the one or more additional services:
the task initiated by the first service and the one or more additional tasks initiated by the one or more additional services are different components of a same particular higher-level task;
and
providing metrics or other information for the task and one or more of the additional tasks of the higher-level task.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing program instructions that, when executed on or across one or more processors, perform:

receiving, by a service monitoring system, an event message from a first service in a service-oriented system, wherein the event message comprises one or more elements of data from a body of a service request, wherein the service request is received by the first service from an upstream service in the service-oriented system, and wherein the first service initiates a sub-task responsive to the service request, and wherein the service monitoring system is external to the first service;
receiving, by the service monitoring system, one or more additional event messages from one or more additional services in the service-oriented system, wherein the one or more additional event messages comprise one or more additional elements of data from bodies of one or more additional service requests received by the one or more additional services for one or more additional sub-tasks that are initiated by the one or more additional services responsive to receiving the one or more additional service requests;
determining, by the service monitoring system based at least in part on both:
the one or more elements of data in the event message, wherein the one or more elements of data are from the service request received by the first service, and
the one or more additional elements of data in the one or more additional event messages, wherein the one or more additional elements of data are from the one or more additional service requests received by the one or more additional services:
a same particular higher-level task comprises the sub-task initiated by the first service and the one or more additional sub-tasks initiated by the one or more additional services;
and
providing metrics or other information for the sub-task and one or more of the additional sub-tasks of the higher-level task.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/105,264Filed 25 Nov 2020
Granted: 6 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G06F 9/542
Interprogram communication: event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
G06F 9/4881
By program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system: scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
G06F 11/3006
Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored: where the computing system is…
G06Q 30/04
Commerce: billing or invoicing