System and method for performance data collection in a virtual environment

摘要

A system and method can manage software services in virtualized and non-virtualized environments. A plurality of data collection components in a computing environment can include a plurality of virtual machines running on the one or more microprocessors, wherein the plurality of virtual machines are adapted to be deployed with services and applications. Each data collection component operates to use one or more data structures to communicate with a data consumer, wherein each data structure describes metrics to be collected by said data collection component and is capable of containing collected metric values.

主权项

1. A system for collecting performance data in a computing environment, comprising:
one or more microprocessors; a plurality of specific observer managers in a computing environment with a plurality of virtual machines running on the one or more microprocessors, wherein each specific observer manager operates to manage a specific observer for use in collecting performance data from a different monitored resource in the computing environment; and a generic observer manager that includes a registry for registering and managing the plurality of specific observer managers; wherein the generic observer manager operates to
receive, from a consumer, a request that specifies, in a data structure, metrics for use in collecting performance data, wherein the metrics include a server instance name, and one or more attributes for a monitored resource on the server instance,determine, based on the metrics in the request, which specific observer manager to delegate the request to, andreturn a reference to a specific observer managed by the specific observer manager that has received the request, to the consumer for use in interacting with the specific observer and to obtain the performance data specified by the request.