Patent ID: 8572241

Claim:
At a computer system including a processor and system memory, the computer system also including a computing component and a heat map service, the computing component having a cloud interface module, a cloud performance monitor, and a heat map module, the computer system within a customer premise and connected to an on premise cluster, a cloud management service and a resource cloud, the heat map service configured to render on premise performance counters in a specified format for on premise nodes running in the on premise cluster, a method for integrating on premise cluster heat map data with resource cloud heat map data, the method comprising: an act of deploying a cloud based computing service into the resource cloud, the cloud based computing service for supplementing an on premise computing service deployed in the on premise cluster, deployment including: an act of deploying one or more cloud based nodes in a worker role to implement the cloud based computing service, the one or more cloud based nodes configured to write cloud based performance counters to a cloud based storage location, the cloud based performance counters indicating the state of the one or more cloud based nodes; and an act of formulating mappings for mapping the cloud based performance counters into the specified format; an act of polling the cloud based storage location for cloud based performance counters subsequent to deploying the cloud based computing service; an act of receiving cloud based performance counters for the one or more cloud based nodes in response to polling the cloud based storage location; an act of mapping the cloud based performance counters into the specified format in accordance with the formulated mappings; an act of integrating the cloud based performance counters along with on premise performance counters in an on premise store subsequent to mapping the cloud based performance counters into the specified format; and an act of rendering the cloud based performance counters along with the on premise performance counters in a heat map to indicate the status of the on premise nodes and the one or more cloud based nodes.