Method And System For Automated Agent Injection In Container Environments

A computer-implemented method for injecting an agent into a process supported by a particular application execution platform, comprising:

• monitoring, by a core agent, system calls made between an application execution platform and an operating system implemented on a host computing device, where the core agent is injected into a starting process, the application execution platform is loaded by the starting process;
• recording, by the core agent, a sequence of system calls made between the application execution platform and the operating system;
• comparing, by the core agent, the recorded sequence of system calls with one or more predetermined call patterns, where each predetermined call pattern identifies a particular application execution platform;
• detecting, by the core agent, a match between the recorded sequence of system calls and a given call pattern in the predetermined call patterns;
• retrieving, by the core agent, a type specific agent corresponding to the given call pattern, where the type specific agent is retrieved in response to a match between the recorded sequence of system calls and a given call pattern in the predetermined call patterns, and the type specific agent is configured to interact with the particular application execution platform associated with the given call pattern;
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• injecting, by the core agent, the type specific agent into the starting process.