Patent ID: 9690609
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: instantiating, in a cloud computing environment that supports dynamic provisioning and decommissioning of virtual machine instances, a virtual machine, whereupon a corresponding virtual agent is also automatically instantiated, wherein the virtual agent is independent from the virtual machine; pairing the virtual machine with the corresponding virtual agent, whereupon the virtual agent monitors for a transaction performed by the paired virtual machine; registering the virtual agent with a persistent registry that stores provenance information independently of underlying virtual machine transaction data; and performing by the virtual agent: wherein: the forwarded event is collected with other events so as to produce a composite end-to-end log of the process in a manner that enables provenance of the virtual machine as participating in the process; and the provenance information includes information associated with the virtual machine associated with the provenance information to provide origin information about the transaction data from the virtual machine.