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Method and system for transaction controlled sampling of distributed heterogeneous transactions without source code modifications

US9811362B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Dynatrace Software GmbH · AT

Inventors

Bernd Greifeneder · Linz, AT
Christian Schwarzbauer · Linz, AT
Stefan Chiettini · Linz, AT
Jurgen Richtsfeld · Linz, AT
Erich Georg Hochmuth · Linz, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 29, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/87
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for tracing individual transactions on method call granularity is disclosed. The system uses instrumentation based transaction tracing mechanisms to enhance thread call stack sampling mechanisms by a) only sampling threads executing monitored transactions while execution is ongoing b) tagging sampled call stacks with a transaction identifier for correlation of sampled call stacks with instrumentation bases tracing data. The combination of instrumentation based tracing with thread call stack sampling reduces sampling generated overhead by only sampling relevant thread, and reduces instrumentation generated overhead because it allows reducing instrumentation.

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