METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT COLLECT DATA FROM COMPUTING FACILITIES AND EXPORT A SPECIFIED PORTION OF THE COLLECTED DATA FOR REMOTE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS

摘要

The current document is directed to methods and systems that collect data within computing facilities according to data-collection specifications contained in data-collection manifests and that export a specified portion of the collected data to remote data-processing and data-analysis systems based on data-export specifications encoded within data-export whitelists. In a disclosed implementation, collected data is hierarchically encoded within a file or document that is efficiently processed, using one or more regular expressions that comprise a data-export whitelist, to extract the specified portion of the collected data for export to a remote data-processing and data-analysis system.