TECHNIQUES FOR POLICY-CONTROLLED ANALYTIC DATA COLLECTION IN LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS

摘要

Exemplary techniques for policy-controlled analytic data collection in large-scale systems are described. A policy engine receives predicate/action pairs and an alerts policy, each predicate identifying an operating condition at a reporting module that can be evaluated as true or false, and a corresponding action identifying what the reporting module is to do upon the corresponding predicate being evaluated as true. The policy engine provides the predicate/action pairs to reporting modules to be installed as rules, which generate analytic data vectors and apply those vectors against the rules. The actions may cause the reporting modules to send the analytic data vectors as analytic report data to an analytics engine, which has been configured with the alerts policy received by the policy engine. The analytics engine applies received analytic report data against the alerts policy to determine whether to send alert event data to the policy engine or to perform a responsive action.