Method and system for identifying health of a microservice based on resource utilization of the microservice

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12541609-B2
Application number	US-202318154480-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2023
Priority date	Jan 13, 2023
Publication date	Feb 3, 2026
Grant date	Feb 3, 2026

Abstract

A method for managing a data protection module (DPM) includes: obtaining resource utilization data of a first microservice (FM) and a second microservice (SM); deriving, based on the resource utilization data and for the FM and the SM, resource utilization values (RUVs) for each resource; identifying, based on the RUVs, health of the FM and the SM; tagging, based on the identified health of the FM and the SM, the FM and the SM; obtaining a first confidence score (CS) associated with the tag of the FM and a second CS associated with the tag of the SM; generating a ranked list (RL) based on the first CS and the second CS, in which the RL comprises the FM and the SM ordered based on their respective CSs; and sending, based on the RL, a recommendation to the DPM to manage the health of the FM and the SM.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for managing a data protection module, the method comprising:
obtaining resource utilization data of a first microservice and a second microservice, wherein the first microservice and the second microservice execute on the data protection module,
wherein the resource utilization data specifies a quantity of file descriptors utilized by a first process that is executed by the first microservice and a quantity of threads utilized by a second process that is executed by the second microservice,
wherein the resource utilization data is obtained by intercepting a communication being sent from the first microservice to the second microservice;
deriving, based on the resource utilization data and for the first microservice and the second microservice, resource utilization values for each resource, wherein the resource utilization values comprise an average resource utilization value, a minimum resource utilization value, and a maximum resource utilization value; identifying, based on the resource utilization values, health of the first microservice and the second microservice; tagging, based on the identified health of the first microservice and the second microservice and configuration instructions set by a manufacturer, the first microservice and the second microservice; obtaining a first confidence score associated with the tag of the first microservice and a second confidence score associated with the tag of the second microservice; generating a ranked list based on the first confidence score and the second confidence score, wherein the ranked list comprises the first microservice and the second microservice ordered based on their respective confidence scores; and sending, based on the ranked list, a recommendation to a user of the data protection module to manage the health of the first microservice and the second microservice.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the resource comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a processing resource, a memory resource, and a networking resource.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the average resource utilization value is a continuous average resource utilization value.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first microservice provides at least a data protection service, wherein the data protection service protects application data of a virtual machine.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the second microservice provides at least an orchestration service, wherein the orchestration service orchestrates the data protection service.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first microservice provides at least an authentication service, wherein the authentication service authenticates a user's credentials before performing a data protection operation for the user.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the tag of the first microservice specifies that the first microservice is an unhealthy microservice, wherein being the unhealthy microservice signifies that the first microservice could not generate a response to a request of the second microservice.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the tag of the second microservice specifies that the second microservice is a healthy microservice, wherein being the healthy microservice signifies that the second microservice generates a response to a request of the first microservice.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the health of the first microservice and the second microservice are identified using a hierarchical density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (HDBSCAN) model.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the confidence score of the tagged first microservice is obtained using a conformal prediction model.

11 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for managing a data protection module, the method comprising:
obtaining resource utilization data of a first microservice and a second microservice, wherein the first microservice and the second microservice execute on the data protection module,
wherein the resource utilization data specifies a quantity of file descriptors utilized by a first process that is executed by the first microservice and a quantity of threads utilized by a second process that is executed by the second microservice,
wherein the resource utilization data is obtained by intercepting a communication being sent from the first microservice to the second microservice;
deriving, based on the resource utilization data and for the first microservice and the second microservice, resource utilization values for each resource, wherein the resource utilization values comprise an average resource utilization value, a minimum resource utilization value, and a maximum resource utilization value; identifying, based on the resource utilization values, health of the first microservice and the second microservice; tagging, based on the identified health of the first microservice and the second microservice and configuration instructions set by a manufacturer, the first microservice and the second microservice; obtaining a first confidence score associated with the tag of the first microservice and a second confidence score associated with the tag of the second microservice; generating a ranked list based on the first confidence score and the second confidence score, wherein the ranked list comprises the first microservice and the second microservice ordered based on their respective confidence scores; and sending, based on the ranked list, a recommendation to the data protection module to manage the health of the first microservice and the second microservice.

12 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the resource comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a processing resource, a memory resource, and a networking resource.

13 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the average resource utilization value is a continuous average resource utilization value.

14 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the first microservice provides at least a data protection service, wherein the data protection service protects application data of a virtual machine.

15 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the second microservice provides at least an orchestration service, wherein the orchestration service orchestrates the data protection service.

16 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the first microservice provides at least an authentication service, wherein the authentication service authenticates a user's credentials before performing a data protection operation for the user.

17 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the tag of the first microservice specifies that the first microservice is an unhealthy microservice, wherein being the unhealthy microservice signifies that the first microservice could not generate a response to a request of the second microservice.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the tag of the second microservice specifies that the second microservice is a healthy microservice, wherein being the healthy microservice signifies that the second microservice generates a response to a request of the first microservice.

19 . A system for managing a data protection module, the system compri

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Chopra Shelesh
• Kulkarni Gururaj
• Ambaljeri Mahantesh

Classifications

• G06F21/6218 Primary

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