CUSTOM CORRELATION OF A DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS TRANSACTION
A mechanism is provided for customizing communication of correlation data between servers using a custom or proprietary communication protocol. The system may modify a payload transmitted between servers to include monitoring parameters. The payload may be modified by expanding a portion of the payload or otherwise inserting data into the payload. The portion may include a header, footer, an additional property, a field, or other portion of the header. A mechanism may detect both outgoing calls and incoming requests to either modify the request with the payload or retrieve the payload from the request. The configuration preferences received from a user may be used to process the detected calls and modify a payload at a designed portion suitable to be expanded. Once sent, the configuration parameters may be used by a recipient server to detect the request with the modified payload and retrieve the monitoring parameter. The monitoring parameter may be used to correlate distributed transactions that occur over a set of servers which communicate with non-standard protocols.
1 . A method for monitoring a business transaction, comprising:
receiving an identification of a portion of a payload to be transmitted from a first application to a second application;
automatically modifying by an agent a call from the first application to include a monitoring parameter in the identified portion of the payload; and
transmitting the call with the monitoring parameter.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified portion is an expandable portion.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving an identification includes receiving a method identifier.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the received identification identifies a payload.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the portion includes a payload property.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the portion includes an existing map payload.
7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising instrumenting byte code of the application to insert code which detects the call that is modified.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identification is stored in an XML file, the agent modifying the call payload based on the XML file.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identification is received in a file generated in response to user input, the file generated from the user input.
10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein input is received through a user interface.
11 . A method for monitoring a business transaction, comprising:
receiving a call from a remote application;
determining that the call matches configuration data;
retrieving a monitoring parameter from an identified portion of the call; and
processing the call with the monitoring parameter.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified portion is an expandable portion.
13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the portion includes a payload property.
14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the portion includes an existing map payload.
15 . 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 a business transaction, the method comprising:
receiving an identification of a portion of a payload to be transmitted from a first application to a second application;
automatically modifying by an agent a call from the first application to include a monitoring parameter in the identified portion of the payload; and
transmitting the call with the monitoring parameter.
16 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the identified portion is an expandable portion.
17 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the receiving an identification includes receiving a method identifier.
18 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the received identification identifies a payload.
19 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the portion includes a payload property.
20 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the portion includes an existing map payload.
21 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , the method further comprising instrumenting byte code of the application to insert code which detects the call that is modified.
22 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the identification is stored in an XML file, the agent modifying the call payload based on the XML file.
23 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the identification is received in a file generated in response to user input, the file generated from the user input.
24 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 23 , wherein input is received through a user interface.
25 . 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 a business transaction, the method comprising:
receiving a call from a remote application;
determining that the call matches configuration data;
retrieving a monitoring parameter from an identified portion of the call; and
processing the call with the monitoring parameter.
26 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 25 , wherein the identified portion is an expandable portion.
27 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 25 , wherein the portion includes a payload property.
28 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 25 , wherein the portion includes an existing map payload.
29 . 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 receive an identification of an portion of a payload to be transmitted from a first application to a second application, automatically modify by an agent a call from the first application to include a monitoring parameter in the identified portion of the payload and transmit the call with the monitoring parameter.
30 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the identified portion is an expandable portion.
31 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the receiving an identification includes receiving a method identifier.
32 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the received identification identifies a payload.
33 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the portion includes a payload property.
34 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the portion includes an existing map payload.
35 . The system of claim 29 , the method further comprising instrumenting byte code of the application to insert code which detects the call that is modified.
36 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the identification is stored in an XML file, the agent modifying the call payload based on the XML file.
37 . The system of claim 29 , wherein the identification is received in a file generated in response to user input, the file generated from the user input.
38 . The system of claim 37 , wherein input is received through a user interface.
39 . 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 receive a call from a remote application, determine that the call matches configuration data, retrieve a monitoring parameter from an identified portion of the call, and process the call with the monitoring parameter.
40 . The system of claim 39 , wherein the identified portion is an expandable portion.
41 . The system of claim 39 , wherein the portion includes a payload property.
42 . The system of claim 39 , wherein the portion includes an existing map payload.