Message Flow Model of Interactions Between Distributed Services

摘要

A computer-implementable method, system and computer-usable medium for defining a message flow model of interactions between distributed services are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: capturing unidirectional network-level message traffic between services in a network; identifying service end-points from information obtained from the uni-directional network-level message traffic; identifying message interactions of captured uni-directional network-level message traffic between identified service end-points; applying formal and informal interface definitions to the captured unidirectional network-level message traffic; categorizing each captured unidirectional network-level message traffic as being a public network-level message traffic or a private network-level message traffic; filtering the captured uni-directional network-level message traffic to filter out any formally defined captured uni-directional network-level message traffic; correlating message exchanges for filtered uni-directional network-level message traffic to identify a relationship between correlated message exchanges; and analyzing the network according to identified relationships between correlated message exchanges.