Patent ID: 9558093
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method executed on a computing device to provide visual tools for failure analysis in distributed systems, the method comprising: aggregating errors from synthetic measurements and usage data, the usage data including anonymized output of one or more customer actions associated with a use scenario of a cloud based service, based on one or more criteria that includes one or more from a set of: an error type and an identification of a type of an associated component of the cloud based service; processing the errors to create a distribution that segments the errors based on components of the cloud based service by: highlighting a failed component that generates a subset of the errors associated with a failure in a visualization to be displayed, wherein the failed component is one of the components; and providing the distribution in the visualization to identify the failure by emphasizing the failed component with a failure information in proximity to the displayed failed component.