Composition of custom key performance indicators for real-time analysis of network telemetry events

US10797963B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VMware LLC · US

Inventors

• Aditya Gudipati · Sunnyvale, US
• Rakesh Misra · Bengaluru, IN
• Manu Bansal · Palo Alto, US
• Srikanth Hariharan · Sunnyvale, US
• Ben Basler · Palo Alto, US
• Rajiv Ramanathan · Cupertino, US
• Rohan Agarwal · Los Altos Hills, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 7, 2019
• Grant date: Oct 6, 2020
• Expiry date: Sep 7, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/5009
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A graphical user interface (“GUI”) allows for the creation of custom key performance indicators (“KPIs”) for real-time analysis of network telemetry events. The GUI can include options for defining variables based on event attributes. These can correspond to events that exist in input telemetry streams at a stream processor. The GUI can allow creation of a formula based on these variables. An aggregation section specifies how the output of the formula is aggregated. This can be based on group, aggregation function, and time period. A manager process causes the stream processor to apply the custom KPI definition to real-time input streams. An output KPI stream can then be routed to a destination for analysis.