Patent ID: 8275855
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring REST web services, the method comprising: retrieving one or more service descriptions for one or more REST web services by a web service provider; automatically generating one or more REST based web service calls and expected responses to the one or more REST based web service calls from the one or more service descriptions, the one or more REST based web service calls including one or more monitoring calls to create, modify, retrieve, and destroy REST resources associated with the one or more REST web services; invoking the one or more monitoring calls associated with the one or more REST based web service calls to provide service requests to a client under various load conditions; monitoring web services activities of the one or more REST web services via the one or more call invocations under the various load conditions; receiving a plurality of feedback results from the monitoring of the web services activities; aggregating feedback results and determining therefrom analytics of the one or more REST web services' ability to create, modify, retrieve, and destroy the REST resources, and responsiveness of the one or more REST web services under the various load conditions relative to service level agreements associated with the one or more REST web services; and adjusting web service parameters of the one or more REST web services based on the aggregated feedback results.