Granted Patent B2

US 12,236,292 · App. 17/525,757 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Inventors: Zain Mohamed Asgar (San Francisco, CA); Omid Jalal Azizi (San Francisco, CA); James Michael Bartlett (San Francisco, CA); Ruizhe Cheng (San Francisco, CA); Phillip Kuznetsov (San Francisco, CA); Ishan Mukherjee (San Francisco, CA); Michelle Aimi Nguyen (San Francisco, CA); Natalie Grace Serrino (San Francisco, CA); Yaxiong Zhao (San Francisco, CA)

Assignee: New Relic, Inc.

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Abstract

Claims (34)

1. A method for linking and navigating data collected from a distributed application cluster, the method comprising:

providing an edge module configured to deploy a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) probe and a corresponding BPF program in a computing environment, wherein the computing environment corresponds to a node of a plurality of nodes included in the distributed application cluster;

triggering the BPF probe based on an event associated with a distributed application running in a user space of the computing environment;

collecting data associated with the event in a kernel space of the computing environment via the BPF program;

transferring the collected data from the kernel space of the computing environment to the user space of the computing environment;

assigning one or more semantic labels to the collected data, the one or more semantic labels indicating at least one entity of the node associated with the collected data;

generating at least one URL link corresponding to the collected data, the at least one URL link comprising an entity-centric hierarchical URL, the elements of the URL hierarchy comprising the one or more semantic labels indicating the at least one entity of the node associated with the collected data; and

displaying, via a user interface, the collected data in response to a user accessing the at least one URL link.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein transferring the collected data from the kernel space to the user space includes transferring the collected data from the BPF program to the edge module.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the edge module is configured to run on the computing environment with the distributed application.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more semantic labels assigned to the collected data indicate a source of the data.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the semantic labels include a node name, a pod name, or a microservice name.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a data query from a user interface, the data query including at least one desired semantic label; and

returning data from the collected data corresponding to the at least one desired semantic label.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the collected data in response to the user accessing the at least one URL link includes generating at least one of a data table and a graphical visualization representing the collected data.

8. A system for linking and navigating data collected from a distributed application cluster, the system comprising:

at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

at least one processor for executing the computer-executable instructions stored in the at least one memory, wherein the instructions, when executed, instruct the at least one processor to:

provide an edge module configured to deploy a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) probe and a corresponding BPF program in a computing environment, wherein the computing environment corresponds to a node of a plurality of nodes included in the distributed application cluster;

trigger the BPF probe based on an event associated with a distributed application running in a user space of the computing environment;

collect data associated with the event in a kernel space of the computing environment via the BPF program;

transfer the collected data from the kernel space of the computing environment to the user space of the computing environment;

assign one or more semantic labels to the collected data, the one or more semantic labels indicating at least one entity of the node associated with the collected data;

generate at least one URL link corresponding to the collected data, the at least one URL link comprising an entity-centric hierarchical URL, the elements of the URL hierarchy comprising the one or more semantic labels indicating the at least one entity of the node associated with the collected data; and

display, via a user interface, the collected data in response to a user accessing the at least one URL link.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein transferring the collected data from the kernel space to the user space includes transferring the collected data from the BPF program to the edge module.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the edge module is configured to run on the computing environment with the distributed application.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more semantic labels assigned to the collected data indicate a source of the data.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the semantic labels include a node name, a pod name, or a microservice name.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further instruct the at least one processor to:

receive a data query from a user interface, the data query including at least one desired semantic label; and

return data from the collected data corresponding to the at least one desired semantic label.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein displaying the collected data in response to the user accessing the at least one URL link includes generating at least one of a data table and a graphical visualization representing the collected data.

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