Automated tracker and analyzer

摘要

A utility that can be embedded within a system or application, or run as a stand-alone utility, provides a method for identifying causal relationships for one or more events. For instance, if an anomaly is occurring for a subset of events in a series of events, certain information about potential causes can be collected in conjunction with the series of events and, the information can be analyzed to determine if there is a cause and affect relationship leading to the occurrence of the anomalies.

主权项

1. A processor implemented method of enabling the collection of a series of data points in conjunction with a series of events such that the series of data points can be analyzed to identify a correlation measure between the series of data points and the series of events, the processor operating in response to executing program instructions, the method comprising the acts of:
identifying an event that is part of a first series of events; defining a data point to collect for the first series of events; requesting, from a first set of data sources, the defined data point for the identified event; receiving, from any subset of the first set of data sources, the defined data point for the identified event; enabling one or more data sources of the first set of data sources to define a different data point for the identified event; and receiving, from the one or more data sources of the first set of data sources, a source defined data point for the identified event; whereby, for a plurality of events in the series of events, the defined data points, the source defined data points and the events can be analyzed to identify a correlation measure.