SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METERING AND ANALYZING USAGE AND PERFORMANCE DATA OF A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTE AND NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

摘要

A method and system for metering and analyzing usage and performance data of virtualized compute and network infrastructures is disclosed. The processing functions of the metered data are divided into 'processing units' that are configured to execute on a server (or plurality of interconnected servers). Each processing unit receives input from an upstream processing unit, and processes the metered data to produce output for a downstream processing unit. The types of processing units, as well as the order of the processing units is user-configurable (e.g. via XML file), thus eliminating the need to modify source code of the data processing application itself, thereby saving considerable time, money, and development resources required to manage the virtualized compute and network infrastructure.