Vmware, Inc.

Thangamani K

Kumaran Kamala Kannan

Ramachandran Krishnan

Dinesh Surajmal

Hari Hara Subramanian Nagaiyanallur Sairam

Methods that use marking, leveling and linking ('MLL') processes to identify problems and dynamically correlate events recorded in various log files generated for a use-case of an application are described. The marking process determines fact objects associated with the use-case from events recorded in the various log files, database dumps, captured user actions, network traffic, and third-party component logs in order to identify non-predefined problems with running the application in a distributed computing environment. The MLL methods do not assume a predefined input format and may be used with any data structure and plain log files. The MLL methods present results in a use-case trace in a graphical user interface. The use-case trace enables human users to monitor and troubleshoot execution of the application. The use-case trace identifies the types of non-predefined problems that have occurred and points in time when the problems occurred.

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Bengaluru, India

Thangamani K