Health model for cloud service health monitoring

A method comprising:

• generating, by a processing unit, a directed graph health model that defines dependencies between nodes within a distributed computing environment, wherein:
• the nodes include lower-level nodes representing resource-based entities;
• the nodes include higher-level nodes representing service-based entities;
• and
• edges that connect respective pairs of nodes, the edges representing dependencies between the respective pairs of nodes;
• determining, based on at least one monitored metric, that each of a plurality of resource-based entities connected to a service-based entity in the directed graph health model has transitioned into a particular health state;
• determining that a number of resource-based entities in the plurality of resource-based entities satisfies a threshold established to indicate a health state transition for the service-based entity, wherein the threshold defines a percentage of a total number of resource-based entities connected to the service-based entity in the directed graph health model;
• and
• in response to determining that the number of resource-based entities in the plurality of resource-based entities satisfies the threshold established to indicate the health state transition for the service-based entity, executing an action associated with the health state transition for the service-based entity.

A system comprising:

• a processing system;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• generating a directed graph health model that defines dependencies between nodes within a distributed computing environment, wherein:
• the nodes include lower-level nodes representing resource-based entities;
• the nodes include higher-level nodes representing service-based entities;
• and
• edges that connect respective pairs of nodes, the edges representing dependencies between the respective pairs of nodes;
• determining, based on at least one monitored metric, that each of a plurality of resource-based entities connected to a service-based entity in the directed graph health model has transitioned into a particular health state;
• determining that a number of resource-based entities in the plurality of resource-based entities satisfies a threshold established to indicate a health state transition for the service-based entity, wherein the threshold defines a percentage of a total number of resource-based entities connected to the service-based entity in the directed graph health model;
• and
• in response to determining that the number of resource-based entities in the plurality of resource-based entities satisfies the threshold established to indicate the health state transition for the service-based entity, executing an action associated with the health state transition for the service-based entity.

A computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processing system, cause a system to perform operations comprising:

• generating a directed graph health model that defines dependencies between nodes within a distributed computing environment, wherein:
• the nodes include lower-level nodes representing resource-based entities;
• the nodes include higher-level nodes representing service-based entities;
• and
• edges that connect respective pairs of nodes, the edges representing dependencies between the respective pairs of nodes;
• determining, based on at least one monitored metric, that each of a plurality of resource-based entities connected to a service-based entity in the directed graph health model has transitioned into a particular health state;
• determining that a number of resource-based entities in the plurality of resource-based entities satisfies a threshold established to indicate a health state transition for the service-based entity, wherein the threshold defines a percentage of a total number of resource-based entities connected to the service-based entity in the directed graph health model;
• and
• in response to determining that the number of resource-based entities in the plurality of resource-based entities satisfies the threshold established to indicate the health state transition for the service-based entity, executing an action associated with the health state transition for the service-based entity.