Configuring metric collection based on application information

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a first computer of a computing cloud, cause a first agent processor application executing on the first computer to carry out a method of monitoring a plurality of instances of an application, each of the plurality of instances of the application running in one of a plurality of containers of the computing cloud according to a deployment configuration for the application, wherein the method comprises:

• executing at least one of the plurality of instances of the application in at least one of the plurality of containers of the computing cloud according to the deployment configuration;
• acquiring, from a backend device of the computing cloud that is separate from the first computer, a plurality of monitoring configurations that specify telemetry data to collect from the plurality of instances of the application;
• identifying a subset of the plurality of monitoring configurations (1) that are redundant with respect to others of the plurality of monitoring configurations or (2) that are not relevant to the deployment configuration;
• creating a merged monitoring configuration file or data structure from the plurality of monitoring configurations, the merged monitoring configuration excluding the subset;
• periodically acquiring, from a monitoring server of the computing cloud that is configured according to the merged monitoring configuration, first telemetry data for the plurality of monitoring configurations excluding the subset, which the monitoring server collects from at least some of the plurality of instances of the application;
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• transmitting, to the backend device, the first telemetry data to be persisted by the backend device for analysis of the application.

A computer including a processor and memory, wherein the processor executes instructions stored in the memory to monitor a plurality of instances of an application, each of the plurality of instances of the application running in one of a plurality of containers of a computing cloud according to a deployment configuration for the application, by performing the following steps:

• executing at least one of the plurality of instances of the application in at least one of the plurality of containers of the computing cloud according to the deployment configuration;
• acquiring, by a first agent processor application from a backend device of the computing cloud that is separate from the computer, a plurality of monitoring configurations that specify telemetry data to collect from the plurality of instances of the application, the first agent processor application executing on the computer;
• identifying, by the first agent processor application, a subset of the plurality of monitoring configurations (1) that are redundant with respect to others of the plurality of monitoring configurations or (2) that are not relevant to the deployment configuration;
• creating, by the first agent processor application, a merged monitoring configuration file or data structure from the plurality of monitoring configurations, the merged monitoring configuration excluding the subset;
• periodically acquiring, by the first agent processor application from a monitoring server of the computing cloud that is configured according to the merged monitoring configuration, first telemetry data for the plurality of monitoring configurations excluding the subset, which the monitoring server collects from at least some of the plurality of instances of the application;
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• transmitting, by the first agent processor application to the backend device, the first telemetry data to be persisted by the backend device for analysis of the application.