AUTOMATED SERVICE DISCOVERY IN I.T. ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

An automatic service monitor in an information technology environment may be equipped to automatically process machine data originating from a running IT environment to identify the entities that perform services in the environment, and to reflect the discovered entities and service associations in the control and configuration data that directs the monitoring operations performed by the system.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining one or more entities related to the provision of one or more services, including locating first information indicative of an identification for each of the entities in machine data of a field-searchable event data store, the machine data related to the provision of the one or more services; correlating second information in the machine data to determine a service association for each of the entities; updating configuration data of a service monitoring system to reflect the service association for at least one of the entities based at least in part on the identification and the service association of the entity; wherein the machine data is produced by one or more components within an information technology environment and reflects activity within the information technology environment; and wherein the method is performed in a computer system comprising one or more processors.