Self-monitor for computing devices of a distributed computing system

US10776194B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Splunk Inc. · US

Inventors

• Amritpal Singh Bath · El Sobrante, US
• Bharath Kishore Reddy Aleti · Santa Clara, US
• Octavio Enrique Di Sciullo · San Francisco, US
• Tingjin Xu · Dublin, US
• Jason Andrew Beyers · San Francisco, US
• Kartheek Babu Kolla · Newark, US
• Chaithra Nataraj · San Francisco, US
• Clara E. Lee · Pacifica, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 2018
• Grant date: Sep 15, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/24564
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring features of a computing device of a distributed computing system using a self-monitoring module. The self-monitoring module can include multiple feature-specific monitoring modules and one or more parent nodes for the feature-specific monitoring modules. A feature-specific monitoring module can identify or detect a fault status change, such as a fault condition or fault resolution, for one or more features. Based on the identified fault conditions or fault resolutions, the feature-specific monitoring module can determine an internal status and communicate an updated status to a parent node.