Agent asynchronous transaction monitor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9838488-B2
Application number	US-201514701414-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 30, 2015
Priority date	Apr 30, 2015
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

A system monitors asynchronous transactions over a different number of threads by capturing data and tracking transitions in the particular framework. Once an asynchronous method is called, the transition framework may be tracked while executing a asynchronous method call. Within a .NET framework, monitoring may include tracking a task object return, continuation method calls at the completion of a method, and tracking the continuation method as it executes other code. The asynchronous method may then be correlated within a business transaction using the returned task object data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for monitoring an asynchronous transaction, comprising:
detecting, by an agent executing on a server, an asynchronous method call within an application;
determining whether to monitor the detected asynchronous method call;
responsive to the determining, instrumenting the asynchronous method call to be monitored;
responsive to the instrumenting, tracking, by the agent, asynchronous .NET framework transitions initiated by the instrumented asynchronous method call;
obtaining asynchronous .NET framework transition data based on the tracking; and
correlating the asynchronous .NET framework transition data with a distributed business transaction performed at least in part on the server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instrumenting includes performing byte code instrumentation on the asynchronous method determined to be monitored.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the asynchronous method determined to be monitored includes a continuation method.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein tracking includes collecting data associated with a returned task object sent in response to the asynchronous method call.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein correlating includes identifying a method that received returned task object.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein correlating includes correlating asynchronous method and the method that called the asynchronous method.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reporting performance of a distributed business transaction that includes a call to the asynchronous method.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instrumenting includes creating a new method that encompasses the asynchronous method to be monitored within a wrapper.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for monitoring an asynchronous transaction, the method comprising:
detecting, by an agent executing on a server, an asynchronous method call within an application;
determining whether to monitor the detected asynchronous method call;
responsive to the determining, instrumenting the asynchronous method call to be monitored;
responsive to the instrumenting, tracking, by the agent, asynchronous .NET framework transitions initiated by the instrumented asynchronous method call;
obtaining asynchronous .NET framework transition data based on the tracking; and
correlating the asynchronous .NET framework transition data with a distributed business transaction performed at least in part on the server.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the instrumenting includes performing byte code instrumentation on the asynchronous method determined to be monitored.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the asynchronous method determined to be monitored includes a continuation method.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein tracking includes collecting data associated with a returned task object sent in response to the asynchronous method call.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein correlating includes identifying a method that received returned task object.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein correlating includes correlating asynchronous method and the method that called the asynchronous method.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , the method further comprising reporting performance of a distributed business transaction that includes a call to the asynchronous method.

16. A system for monitoring a business transaction, comprising:
a processor;
a memory; and
one or more modules stored in memory and executable by a processor to perform operations including:
detect, by an agent executing on a server, an asynchronous method call within an application;
determine whether to monitor the detected asynchronous method call;
responsive to the determining, instrument the asynchronous method call to be monitored;
responsive to the instrumenting, track, by the agent, asynchronous .NET framework transitions initiated by the instrumented asynchronous method call;
obtain asynchronous .NET framework transition data based on the tracking;

and correlate the asynchronous .NET framework transition data with a distributed business transaction performed at least in part on the server.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the one or more modules are configured to perform byte code instrumentation on the asynchronous method determined to be monitored.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the asynchronous method determined to be monitored includes a continuation method.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein tracking includes collecting data associated with a returned task object sent in response to the asynchronous method call.

20. The system of claim 16 , wherein the one or more modules are configured to correlate including identify a method that received returned task object.

21. The system of claim 16 , wherein the one or more modules are configured to correlate including correlate asynchronous method and the method that called the asynchronous method.

22. The system of claim 16 , the one or more modules executable to report performance of a distributed business transaction that includes a call to the asynchronous method.

Assignees

• Appdynamics Llc

Inventors

• Margulis Michael
• Ericson Ryan
• Fedotyev Alexander
• Nagaraj Sanjay

Classifications

• G06F9/54 Primary

  Interprogram communication · CPC title

• H04L67/22 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/535 Primary

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title