Patent ID: 11880272
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. The system of claim 1
wherein a call trace in the call-trace dataset includes an attribute value for each attribute in a set of attributes that corresponds to a set of fields within the call trace in the call-trace dataset;
wherein a labeled call trace in the call-trace dataset includes at least one label field that includes one of the possible label values for a label associated with the at least one label field;
wherein a call-trace-classification rule is a logical expression that, when applied to one or more attribute values within attribute fields of the call trace in the call-trace dataset, returns a Boolean value indicating whether or not the call trace in the call-trace dataset would be classified as belonging to a set of call traces in the call-trace dataset associated with a particular label value for a particular label;
wherein a call-trace-classification rule comprises one of
a single condition, and
multiple conditions joined together by Boolean operators;

wherein a condition comprises an attribute indication, a relational operator, and an attribute value;
wherein the system extracts call traces from the call-trace database that have timestamps within a time interval associated with a particular operational problem or failure occurring in the distributed application;
wherein each label in the set of labels corresponds to a set of possible values computed from particular fields in the extracted call trace in the call-trace dataset; and
wherein a binary label represents two different computed values and a multi-value label represents more than two different values.