PREVENTION OF EVENT FLOODING
An apparatus and method for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the apparatus comprising: responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event; responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values; responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.
1 . An apparatus for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the apparatus comprising:
responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;
responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;
responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and
responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.
2 . The apparatus of claim 1 wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, a communication component communicating the potential event to a filtering component for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer.
3 . The apparatus claim 1 , wherein an event is a number of changing activities over a time period.
4 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value.
5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period.
6 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value.
7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale.
8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale.
9 . A method for preventing event flooding in an event processing system, the method comprising:
responsive to receiving monitored activity data, analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;
responsive to determining a potential event, identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;
responsive to a positive determination, determining if the met threshold value, is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and
responsive to a second positive determination, disregarding the potential event.
10 . The method of claim 9 wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, communicating the potential event, to a filtering component, for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer.
11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein an event is a number of changing activities over a time period.
12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period.
13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale.
14 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending, set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale.
15 . The method of claim 13 wherein, the numerical measurement scale is a scalar value.
16 . A computer program comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer system and executed:
responsive to receiving, by an analysis component, monitored activity data, an analysis component for analysing the monitored activity data, to determine a potential event;
responsive to determining a potential event, an analysis component identifying a set of threshold values and determining whether the potential event has met a threshold value of the set of threshold values;
responsive to a positive determination, an analysis component for determining if the met threshold value is an identical threshold value met by a previous potential event; and
responsive to a second positive determination, a disregard component for disregarding the potential event.
17 . The computer program of claim 16 wherein, responsive to determining that the met threshold value is not an identical threshold value met by a previously potential event, a communication component communicating the potential event to a filtering component for determining whether the potential event is an event which is to be communicated to an event consumer.
18 . The computer program of claim 16 , wherein an event is a number of active transactions for a determined time period.
19 . The computer program of claim 16 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise an ascending set of numerical threshold values for a potential event which is identified as ascending a numerical measurement scale.
20 . The computer program of claim 16 , wherein the set of threshold values comprise a descending set of numerical threshold value for potential events which are identified as descending a numerical measurement scale.