Global Context-Based Instrumentation for Software Event Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional software instrumentation systems struggle to capture and analyze operating system events, GUI events, and network events, making it difficult to diagnose software application failures and assess software quality effectively.
Innovation Solution
A global context-based instrumentation system that configures event handlers to capture and filter events across multiple components, including operating systems, GUIs, and networks, providing a unified dashboard for event monitoring and logging without requiring modifications to existing applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional event logging is built into applications, then application-specific events can be captured, but operating system events, GUI events, and network events are not captured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary instrumentation framework that sits between the operating system and applications. This framework captures events from multiple sources (OS, GUI, network) and delivers them to applications or external tools, enabling comprehensive event collection without modifying each application individually.
Solution Approach 2:
The instrumentation framework is designed to be universal, capturing events from diverse sources including operating system events, GUI events, network events, and application events through a single unified system. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate instrumentation for each event type.
2Reliability
If comprehensive event capturing is implemented across all components, then diagnostic capability is improved, but system performance overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The framework enables selective event capturing where users can choose to capture only specific event types or filter events based on criteria. This partial action approach allows comprehensive monitoring capability while reducing actual processing overhead by not capturing all possible events simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts event capture functionality from individual applications and consolidates it into a centralized framework. This extraction allows efficient event collection at the system level rather than within each application, reducing per-application overhead while maintaining comprehensive monitoring.
3Measurement precision
If global context based instrumentation is implemented, then event filtering and recording is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The instrumentation framework is segmented into modular components that handle different aspects of event processing independently. This segmentation allows complex event filtering and recording functionality to be divided into manageable units, improving precision while reducing overall system complexity through modularity.
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AI summary
A method(s) and system(s) of monitoring and logging of various identified events of the operating system or the software application hosted on the operating system is disclosed. The method includes configuring the events associated with at least one event handler for monitoring. The method further includes assigning the at least one event handler to active processes of an operating system for handling of the events. Further, the method includes capturing of events by a different daemons and collecting the captured events. To this end, the captured similar events are grouped in one or more groups. The method further includes filtering of collected events based on a definable filter configuration and generating a dashboard representation of the filtered events. The dashboard representations of filtered events are then reported to the user.