Elimination of Measurement Lag for Operations Across a Large Number of Customer Nodes

A system for eliminating measurement lag, the system comprising:

• a backend module, the backend module including one or more processors configured to:
• ascertain a set of the customer nodes eligible for delegation of one or more tasks;
• deploy one or more control agents in a customer data center, each of the one or more control agents being associated with the set of eligible customer nodes of the customer data center;
• receive a query for local state data;
• push down execution of at least part of the query to the deployed one or more control agents;
• and
• receive reporting of metrics from the deployed one or more control agents;
• the one or more control agents configured to:
• receive the query from the backend module;
• coordinate and execute at least a state determination task for the eligible set of the customer nodes to collect local state data stored therein;
• and
• selectively take one or more actions based on results of the execution, the one or more actions including reporting the local state data to the backend module;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors.

A method for eliminating measurement lag associated with pushing data from a customer node in a customer data center to a service provider data center only periodically, the method comprising:

• deploying one or more control agents in a customer data center, each of the one or more control agents being associated with at least one of a set of customer nodes of the customer data center;
• receiving a query for local state data at a service provider data center;
• pushing down execution of the query from the service provider data center to the one or more control agents deployed in the set of customer nodes in the customer data center, the deployed one or more control agents being configured to:
• continuously collect local state data, wherein the local state data includes metrics;
• in response to receiving the query, execute at least a state determination task for the set of customer nodes to:
• report the metrics to the service provider data center;
• perform one or more actions if the metrics set off triggering conditions, the actions including at least remediation;
• and
• when the query requests values of at least one local state for a specific time interval, the one or more control agents are operable to execute the entire query and report the local state data collected over the specific time interval to the service provider data center, such that the entire query was pushed down and executed locally in the set of customer nodes without requiring at least part of the query to be executed at a service data provider level.