Application logging adapters

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10747590-B2
Application number	US-201715644686-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2017
Priority date	Jul 7, 2017
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

Embodiments for managing, serving, and applying logging adapters for applications are described. An administrator for an application can establish mappings between the application and adapters that handle log events from the application. When the application executes, it can get these mappings and use them to obtain the corresponding adapters. The adapters can have a configuration function and a logging function. The configuration function can be executed once per-execution of the application to establish a global state for the logging function of that adapter. The configuration function can receive configuration data provided with the mappings. Thereafter, as the application generates log events, they can be passed to the logging functions of the mapped adapters, which execute to perform logging such as analytics functions, on the events, whether locally or by sending the events to third parties.

First claim

I claim:

1. A system for serving mappings between logging adapters and an application, the system comprising:
a memory;
one or more processors;
an interface configured to receive a request for an adapter management utility; and
a utility server configured to, in response to the request, generate and send the adapter management utility; and
a mappings database;
wherein the interface is further configured to:
receive, from user interaction with the adapter management utility, selections of one or more mappings, each between the application and a corresponding logging adapter;
store, in the mappings database, the received mappings;
receive, from a computing system, a request for identifications of logging adapters mapped to the application, wherein the request is in response to the computing system executing the application; and
provide, in response to the request for identifications of logging adapters, one or more adapter indications, from the one or more mappings between the application and the corresponding adapter, stored in the mappings database, wherein each adapter indication includes a link to a network resource for the corresponding logging adapter; and

wherein the computing system:
uses the links from the one or more adapter indications to retrieve the corresponding logging adapters, each logging adapter comprising at least a logging function;
receives an event from the application; and
executes, for each selected adapter of the logging adapters, the corresponding logging function, wherein the executing includes passing, to the logging function, data from the event, wherein executing at least one of the logging functions results in logging results that are available to a user of the adapter management utility.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the adapter management utility includes adding, to the adapter management utility, multiple potential mappings, each of the multiple potential mappings being between the application and a particular logging adapter.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the received selections of one or more mappings comprise a selection of one or more of the potential mappings.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the received selections of one or more mappings comprise receiving an entered identification of the application and an entered identification of a particular logging adapter to map to the application.

5. The system of claim 1 ,
wherein a specific selection, of the selections, identifies a logging adapter associated with a meta-descriptor defining aspects of configuration data needed for that logging adapter;
wherein the adapter management utility is further configured, based on the meta-descriptor, to receive the configuration data with the defined aspects; and
wherein the received specific selection is received in association with the configuration data.

6. The system of claim 5 ,
wherein at least one of the logging adapters further comprises a configuration function;
wherein providing the one or more adapter indications includes providing, in association with the mapping for the at least one of the logging adapters, the configuration data; and
wherein the computing system further executes the configuration function, passing to the configuration function the configuration data, to produce a global state used in the execution of the logging function of the at least one of the logging adapters.

7. The system of claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the logging adapters further comprises a configuration function; and
wherein the computing system further executes the configuration function to produce a global state used in the execution of the logging function of the at least one of the logging adapters.

8. A method, performed by a computing system, for applying logging adapters to an application, the method comprising:
receiving an indication that the application began execution;
obtaining a set of one or more mappings, each mapping identifying a logging adapter for the application;
retrieving the one or more logging adapters identified in the one or more mappings, at least one of the logging adapters comprising at least a configuration function and a logging function;
for each selected logging adapter of the at least one of the logging adapters, executing the corresponding configuration function to establish a global state for the selected logging adapter;
receiving an event from the application; and
for each particular logging adapter of the at least one of the logging adapters, executing the corresponding logging function using the global state for the particular logging adapter, wherein executing the corresponding logging function includes passing data from the event to the corresponding logging function and wherein executing the corresponding logging function produces logging results.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the set of one or more mappings are obtained from a mappings server that interfaced, with an adapter management utility on a client device separate from the computing system and from the mappings server, to establish the set of one or more mappings.

10. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein the interfacing to establish the set of one or more mappings included, for at least one of the mappings, receiving associated configuration data; and
wherein the executing the configuration function corresponding to the at least one of the mappings comprises passing, to that configuration function, the associated configuration data.

11. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein receiving the associated configuration data, for each particular mapping of at least one of the mappings, comprises obtaining a meta-descriptor defining aspects of configuration data needed for the logging adapter identified in that particular mapping; and
wherein the adapter management utility is further configured, based on the meta-descriptor, to receive the configuration data with the defined aspects and associate the received configurations data with that mapping.

12. The method of claim 8 ,
wherein at least one of the mappings in the set of one or more mappings includes a link to a network resource; and
wherein the retrieving of the logging adapter corresponding to the at least one of the mappings comprises using the link to fetch, from the network resource, the logging adapter corresponding to the at least one of the mappings.

13. The method of claim 8 ,
wherein executing the logging function, corresponding to at least one logging adapter of the one or more logging adapters, comprises making a call to a service hosted by a separate system from the computing system; and
wherein the logging results that are produced by the executing of the logging function corresponding to at least one logging adapter comprises analytics data generated by the separate system.

14. The method of claim 13 ,
wherein executing the configuration function to establish a global state for the at least one logging adapter of the one or more logging adapters comprises using an API to establishing a connection to an analytics service provided by the separate system; and
wherein the executing of the logging function corresponding to at least one logging adapter comprises using the established connection to make the call to the analytics service hosted by the separate system.

15. The method of claim 8 , wherein at least some of the set of one or more mappings are obtained from a mappings cache, on the computing system, the mappings cache storing mappings of previously used mappings for the application.

16. The method of claim 8 , wherein at least some of the o

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Twist Jonjo

Classifications

• G06F2209/544

  Remote · CPC title

• G06F9/44526

  Plug-ins; Add-ons · CPC title

• G06F11/3466

  Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring · CPC title

• G06F2201/86

  Event-based monitoring · CPC title

• G06F9/541

  via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications · CPC title