US 2019/0095239 A1Published application

Domain transversal based transaction contextualization of event information

AssigneeCA, Inc.

InventorsErhan Giral, Tomas Kolda

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Abstract

A topology-based transversal analysis service has been created that correlates topologies of different domains of a distributed application and creates cross-domain “stories” for the different types of transactions provided by the distributed application. A “story” for a transaction type associates an event(s) with a node in an execution path of the transaction type. This provides context to the event(s) with respect to the transaction type (“transaction contextualization”) and their potential business impact. The story is a journal of previously detected events and/or information based on previously detected events. The events have been detected over multiple instances of a transaction type and the journal is contextualized within an aggregate of execution paths of the multiple instances of the transaction type. The story can be considered a computed, ongoing narrative around application and infrastructure performance events, and the narrative grows as more performance-related events are detected.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

based on detection of event based information of a first domain of a plurality of domains of a distributed application, determining that the first domain is not a second domain of the plurality of domains, wherein the event based information comprises information based on events generated from the first domain and wherein the second domain corresponds to execution paths of instances of types of transactions of the distributed application;
based on the determination that the first domain is not the second domain, correlating a first topology map of the first domain and a second topology map of the second domain to determine correlations between nodes of the first and second topology maps, wherein the nodes of the first topology map represent components of the first domain and nodes of the second topology map represent components of the second domain;
with the correlations, determining that a first node representing a first component indicated in the event based information of the first domain correlates to a second node representing a second component of the second domain;
searching a plurality of transaction stories based, at least in part, on a component identifier that identifies the second component, wherein a transaction story comprises historical event based information that is based on previously detected performance-related events over multiple instances of a type of transaction of the distributed application and wherein the historical event based information is in context of an aggregate of execution paths of the multiple instances of the type of transaction;
based on a set of one or more of the plurality of transaction stories resulting from the searching, associating the event based information with a node representing the second component in each of the set of transaction stories to update the set of transaction stories.

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One or more non-transitory machine-readable media comprising program code for cross-domain contextualizing of event based information with respect to different types of transactions of a distributed application, the program code comprising instructions to:

detect first event based information of an application domain and second event based information of an infrastructure domain, wherein the application domain comprises software components of the distributed application and the infrastructure domain comprises hardware components that support the distributed application;
for the first event based information, search a plurality of transaction type distributed execution paths for an execution path node that represents a software component indicated in the first event based information and associate the execution path node in each resulting transaction type distributed execution path with the first event based information,
wherein each of the plurality of transaction type distributed execution paths is an aggregate of distributed execution paths across multiple transaction instances of one of a plurality of types of transactions of the distributed application;
and
for the second event based information,
search the plurality of transaction type distributed execution paths for a node that represents a hardware component indicated in the second event based information or for an execution path node that correlates to the node that represents the hardware component;
based on a set of one or more resulting transaction type distributed execution paths indicating the node that represents the hardware component, associate the second event based information with the node that represents the hardware component;
and
based on a set of one or more resulting transaction type distributed execution paths indicating the execution path node that correlates to the node that represents the hardware component, associate the second event based information with the execution path node.

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An apparatus comprising:

a processor unit;
a network interface;
and
a machine-readable medium comprising program code executable by the processor unit to cause the apparatus to,
detect event based information of a first domain of a plurality of domains of a distributed application, wherein the event based information comprises information based on events generated from the first domain;
determine that the first domain is not a second domain of the plurality of domains, wherein the second domain corresponds to execution paths of instances of types of transactions of the distributed application;
based on the determination that the first domain is not the second domain, correlate a first topology map of the first domain and a second topology map of the second domain to determine correlations between nodes of the first and second topology maps, wherein the nodes of the first topology map represent components of the first domain and nodes of the second topology map represent components of the second domain;
with the correlations, determine whether a first node representing a first component indicated in the event based information of the first domain correlates to a second node representing a second component of the second domain;
search a plurality of transaction stories based, at least in part, on a component identifier that identifies the second component, wherein a transaction story comprises historical event based information that is based on previously detected events over multiple instances of a type of transaction of the distributed application and wherein the historical event based information is in context of an aggregate of execution paths of the multiple instances of the type of transaction;
based on a set of one or more of the plurality of transaction stories resulting from the search, associate the event based information with a node representing the second component in each of the set of transaction stories to update each of the set of transaction stories.

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