Extensibility to monitor multiple products

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12013772-B2
Application number	US-202117554755-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2021
Priority date	Dec 17, 2021
Publication date	Jun 18, 2024
Grant date	Jun 18, 2024

Abstract

Some embodiments include a system, method, and non-transitory medium, with the system including an interface to at least one database product; a stateless ping operator to manage lifecycle events associated with the at least one database product; and a first product-specific ping agent to determine an availability of and generate metrics associated with a plurality of instances of a first specific database product of the at least one database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent, the first product-specific ping agent receiving an assignment of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product to monitor from the ping operator.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system to monitor multiple database products, the system comprising:
a memory storing computer instructions; and
a processor communicatively coupled with the memory to execute the instructions to perform the operations of:
a stateless ping operator controller to manage lifecycle events associated with at least one database product of a database system, wherein the ping operator controller automatically monitors the at least one database product for new instances of the at least one database product and deprovisioning of instances of the at least one database product; and
a first product-specific ping agent of the database system to determine an availability of a plurality of instances of a first specific database product of the at least one database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent and to generate metrics associated with the plurality of instances of the first specific database product of the at least one database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent, the first product-specific ping agent receiving an assignment of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product to monitor from the ping operator and the ping operator managing the lifecycle events associated with the at least one database product of the database system independent of the first product-specific ping agent, wherein the ping operator controller assigns the plurality of instances of the first specific database product to the first product-specific ping agent based on the new instances and the deprovisioninq of instances of the at least one database product.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first product-specific ping agent sends metrics generated thereby to an alert generation system.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the metrics generated by the first product-specific ping agent for the instances of the first specific database product monitored thereby include a ping check result regarding a reachability check of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product and an operating status regarding state information of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an alert generation system that receives an internal health check metric from an internal health check service for the plurality of instances of the at least one database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the alert generation system generates an alert based on the metrics generated by the first product-specific ping agent and the internal health check metric from the plurality of instances of the first specific database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the metrics associated with the plurality of instances of the first specific database product and generated by the first product-specific ping agent conform to a common format for each of the at least one database products.

7. A computer-implemented method to monitor multiple database products, the method comprising:
managing, by a stateless ping operator controller, lifecycle events associated with at least one database product of a database system, including automatically monitoring the at least one database product for new instances of the at least one database product and deprovisioning of instances of the at least one database product;
receiving, by a first product-specific ping agent of the database system from the ping operator controller, an assignment of a plurality of instances of a first specific database product of the at least one database product to monitor, wherein the ping operator controller assigns the plurality of instances of the first specific database product to the first product-specific ping agent based on the new instances and the deprovisioninq of instances of the at least one database product;
determining, by the first product-specific ping agent, an availability of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product of the at least one database product assigned for monitoring to the first product-specific ping agent; and
generating, by the first product-specific ping agent, metrics associated with the plurality of instances of the first specific database product of the at least one database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent, the ping operator managing the lifecycle events associated with the at least one database product of the database system independent of the first product-specific ping agent.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first product-specific ping agent sends the metrics it generates to an alert generation system.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the metrics generated by the first product-specific ping agent for the instances of the first specific database product monitored thereby include a ping check result regarding a reachability check of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product and an operating status regarding state information of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product.

10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising receiving an internal health check metric from an internal health check service for the plurality of instances of the first specific database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the alert generation system generates an alert based on the metrics generated by the first product-specific ping agent and the internal health check metric from the internal health check service for the plurality of instances of the first specific database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent.

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the metrics associated with the plurality of instances of the at least one database product and generated by the first product-specific ping agent conform to a common format for each of the at least one database products.

13. A non-transient, computer-readable medium storing instructions to be executed by a processor to perform a method to monitor multiple database products, the method comprising:
managing, by a stateless ping operator controller, lifecycle events associated with at least one database product of a database system, including automatically monitoring the at least one database product for new instances of the at least one database product and deprovisioning of instances of the at least one database product;
receiving, by a first product-specific ping agent of the database system from the ping operator controller, an assignment of a plurality of instances of a first specific database product of the at least one database product to monitor, wherein the ping operator controller assigns the plurality of instances of the first specific database product to the first product-specific ping agent based on the new instances and the deprovisioning of instances of the at least one database product;
determining, by the first product-specific ping agent, an availability of the plurality of instances of the first specific database product of the at least one database product assigned for monitoring to the first product-specific ping agent; and
generating, by the first product-specific ping agent, metrics associated with the plurality of instances of the first specific database product of the at least one database product monitored by the first product-specific ping agent, the ping operator managing the lifecycle events associated with the at least one database product of the database system independent of the first product-specific ping agent.

Assignees

• Sap Se

Inventors

• Han Sunyoung
• Kim Young Hun
• Park Jongheon
• Fan Ye
• Qiu Guanghui
• Feng Hui
• Lee Chul Won

Classifications

• G06F9/485

  Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution (G06F9/4881 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title

• G06F11/3006

  where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems (multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50) · CPC title

• G06F11/3055

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available (error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16) · CPC title

• G06F11/3495 Primary

  for systems · CPC title