Health Indicator Packet Visualization for Application Monitoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Payment networks face challenges in monitoring and maintaining the health of numerous applications dispersed across different locations and maintained by various teams, making it difficult to gauge and improve the overall application performance efficiently.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that collect health indicators from applications through a collection server using APIs, allowing for visualization of these indicators in interfaces, enabling users to assess the overall health of applications and identify issues, with the ability for applications to report their health status and trigger actions based on defined thresholds.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If application performance management tools use predefined generic performance measures, then the tools can be easily deployed and used, but they cannot effectively gauge the specific performance and health status of individual applications in a payment network

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveperformance measurement accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by having applications self-report their health status through APIs. The collection server receives health indicator packets from applications and feeds this information back to support teams via visualization interfaces, enabling continuous monitoring and improvement of application performance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Applications perform self-service by autonomously reporting their own health status without requiring external probing or manual assessment. Each application compiles and submits health indicator packets containing metrics about its own performance, reducing the need for complex external monitoring infrastructure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If health indicators are collected from numerous dispersed applications maintained by different teams, then comprehensive application health assessment is achieved, but the complexity of collecting and managing data from multiple sources increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddata collection complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal health indicator packet format that can accommodate multiple types of health metrics from different applications. The collection server and visualization interface are designed to handle diverse data sources through a standardized protocol, enabling multi-functional monitoring across the entire payment network

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by transforming various application-specific health metrics into a standardized set of health indicators that can be uniformly collected, stored, and visualized. This parameter transformation enables consistent monitoring across different application types and teams

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If support teams manually monitor and assess application health, then detailed analysis can be performed, but the time and resources required for manual assessment increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvehealth assessment accuracyVSAvoidassessment time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual mechanical assessment processes with automated electronic data collection and visualization. Health indicator packets are automatically compiled by applications, transmitted to the collection server, and visualized for support teams, eliminating the need for manual monitoring while maintaining assessment accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Speed

If applications report detailed health indicators continuously, then real-time application health monitoring is achieved, but the amount of data to be processed and visualized increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemonitoring speedVSAvoiddata volume

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the most relevant health indicators from applications rather than collecting all possible data. The health indicator packet format is designed to capture essential metrics needed for rapid assessment, filtering out unnecessary data to maintain monitoring speed while reducing data volume

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10331536B2Systems and methods for monitoring health indicators associated with applications

Publication Date: 2019.06.25 MASTERCARD INT INC

AI summary

Systems and methods for use in evaluating health associated with one or more applications are disclosed. One exemplary method includes exposing, by a computing device, an application programming interface (API) where the API defines a standard form associated with health indicator packets, and receiving, at the computing device, via the API, a health indicator packet for a health indicator from at least one application where the health indicator packet conforms to the standard form and including a value for the health indicator for the at least one application. The method also includes causing an interface to be displayed to a user where the interface includes a visual effect representative of the value, whereby the user is able to assess health of the application, at least in part based on the value, by viewing the interface.