Patent ID: 7984129
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for high-performance profiling of application events comprising: registering, on a processor, a profiler as a provider to an event tracer, wherein the profiler executes on a management engine linked to the event tracer and an extensible instrumentation layer; identifying an application executing in a production environment, wherein the extensible instrumentation layer exposes information for profiling the application executing in the production environment; offloading one or more profiler functions associated with instrumenting the application executing in the production environment to the event tracer, wherein offloading the one or more profiler functions includes: comparing the captured information associated with the plurality of events to the one or more profile criteria; communicating the captured information associated with one or more of the plurality of events to a cache in response to determining that the captured information associated with the one or more events does not satisfy at least one of the profile criteria, wherein the management engine communicates the captured information associated with the one or more events not satisfying the profile criteria to the cache prior to performing the offloaded profile functions; and invoking the event tracer through an event tracer application program interface (API) using the captured information associated with the plurality of events, wherein the event tracer stores the captured information and the one or more added function tokens in the event tracing log in response to the management engine invoking the event tracer through the event tracer API.