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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
James L. Lentz, Austin, TX (US);
David D. Martin, Acton, MA (US);
Jung W. Van, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Yee Pin Yheng, Milpitas, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for visualizing events received and processed by a plurality of software agents in a distributed system. Aspects of the present disclosure generally include receiving, for each software agent, a recording identifying one or more events occurring on that software agent, generating a visualization showing a timeline for one or more of the plurality of software agents wherein the visualization represents each event consumed or emitted by the one or more software agents as an icon on the timeline ordered based on the time the event is consumed or emitted, receiving a request indicating at least a first one of the icons in the visualization, determining, for the event corresponding to the first icon, a causal chain of events related to that event, and updating the icons corresponding to events in the causal chain of events to present an ordered sequence of events in the causal chain of events that occurred relative to the event corresponding to the first one of the icons.