Patent ID: 8510430
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for selectively monitoring, by a computer, transactions in a distributed computing system, the computer implemented method comprising: responsive to receiving a new transaction at an entry point, checking, by the computer, a monitoring policy to determine if the monitoring policy indicates that the new transaction that traverses a system resource identified in the monitoring policy should be monitored; responsive to determining that the new transaction should be monitored based on the identified system resource, determining whether the system resource traversed by the transaction is operating at a predetermined system condition defined in the monitoring policy; receiving monitoring information about the new transaction, wherein the new transaction is selectively monitored at the identified system resource if the system resource traversed by the transaction is operating at the predetermined system condition defined in the monitoring policy, and wherein the new transaction is allowed to continue as an unmonitored transaction if the system resource traversed by the transaction is not operating at the predetermined system condition.