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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Akram Ismail Sheriff, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajiv Asati, Morrisville, NC (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided that includes injecting a trace agent within a side-car container on a first microservice that runs in a point-of-delivery (POD) on a compute device; when an API request is made from the first microservice to a second microservice the trace agent adds traceability metadata in a header within application data of the API request and within an application-layer protocol header of the API request. A mapping table is generated or updated, the mapping table including entries for identification information associated with the API request. When an API reply is received at the first microservice from the second microservice, the identification information in the mapping table is updated. The mapping table may be exported to a collector device that is configured to reconcile API communications between the first microservice and the second microservice using contents of the mapping table.