Tracing system for application and module tracing
View Patent ↗A tracing system may trace applications and their modules, and may make module-specific data available through various interfaces. The tracing system may collect tracer data while an application executes, and may preprocess the data into application-specific and module-specific databases. An analysis engine may further analyze and process these databases to create application-specific views and module-specific views into the data. The application-specific views may be intended for a developer of the application, while the module-specific views may have a public version accessible to everybody and a module developer version that may contain additional details that may be useful to the module developer.
1. A method performed by at least one computer processor, said method comprising:
receiving tracing data gathered from an application, said application comprising application specific code and reusable module code;
identifying reusable module trace data and storing said reusable module trace data in a reusable module trace database;
identifying application trace data and storing said application trace data in an application trace database;
receiving a first request for said tracing data;
determining that said first request is not authenticated;
creating an application-specific view of said application trace data in response to determining that said first request is not authenticated;
receiving a second request for said tracing data;
determining that said second request is authenticated; and
creating a reusable module-specific view of said reusable module trace data in response to determining that said second request is authenticated.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
anonymizing said reusable module trace data prior to storing said reusable module trace data.
3. The method of claim 2 , said anonymizing being performed by obfuscating at least a portion of said reusable module trace data.
4. The method of claim 1 , said first request being an authenticated request from an application developer.