US 2014/0006606 A1Published application

Message Queue Transaction Tracking Using Application Activity Trace Data

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsScot Dixon, Simon Teverey Huband, Luke Rowan McKenna

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Abstract

An approach is provided that detects inbound messages being put to message queues managed by a middleware message queuing platform. The approach retrieves activity trace data corresponding to each of the inbound messages, with the activity trace data maintained by the middleware message queuing platform. The approach generates inbound event records corresponding the inbound messages based on the activity trace data. The approach then detects outbound messages retrieved from the message queues. Activity trace data corresponding to the outbound messages is retrieved and the approach generates an outbound event record for each outbound message. The approach receives a transaction request from a requestor that corresponds to a message. The approach retrieves and returns the inbound event records and outbound event records that correspond to the requested message. The retrieved event records are used for transaction tracking: to build transaction flow topologies and to report transaction performance metrics.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method implemented by an information handling system comprising:

detecting a plurality of inbound messages being put to one or more message queues that are managed by a middleware message queuing platform;
retrieving a first plurality of activity trace data corresponding to each of the plurality of inbound messages, wherein the activity trace data is maintained by the middleware message queuing platform;
generating an inbound event record corresponding to each of the inbound messages based on the first plurality of activity trace data, wherein the generating further comprises storing an inbound event context corresponding to each of the inbound messages, wherein the inbound event context for each inbound message includes an application identifier and an identifier of a writer of the inbound message;
detecting a plurality of outbound messages being retrieved from the one or more message queues;
retrieving a second plurality of activity trace data corresponding to each of the plurality of outbound messages;
generating an outbound event record corresponding to each of the outbound messages based on the second plurality of activity trace data;
receiving, from a requestor, a transaction request corresponding to a selected message;
retrieving transaction tracking data corresponding to the selected message by identifying one of the generated inbound event records that corresponds to the selected message and by identifying one of the generated outbound event records that corresponds to the selected message;
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returning the retrieved transaction tracking data to the requestor.

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Facts

Application: 13/754,868Filed 30 Jan 2013
Priority: 28 Jun 2012
Published: 2 Jan 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04L 43/14
Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks: using software, i.e. software packages
G06F 9/546
Interprogram communication: message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
G06F 2209/548
Indexing scheme relating to G06F9/54: queue
H04L
Digital communication

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