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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
May. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ashutosh Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Gaurav Rastogi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhijeet Joglekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/935 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 49/3063 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A custom metrics technique includes: accessing a packet; processing the packet using a packet processing pipeline of a service engine in a distributed network service platform, including: reaching a pre-specified point in the packet processing pipeline; inserting, in the packet processing pipeline, script code that corresponds to the pre-specified point; executing the script code to collect at least metric-related data associated with a user-specified metric object; and executing remaining packet processing pipeline.