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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Anna Igorevna Bokhan-Dilawari, San Ramon, CA (US);
Manpreet Singh, Bengaluru, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to embodiments of the disclosure, an example method herein may comprise: providing an extensibility platform for observing entities to produce associated observability data; installing flexible meta models within the extensibility platform, wherein the plurality of flexible meta models define the entities, a globally unique identifier of each of the plurality of entities, a type of each of the entities, relationships between the entities, kinds of observability data, and dependencies among the flexible meta models; and processing the observability data obtained within the extensibility platform based on tenant-specific solution packages and the flexible meta models, wherein the observability data is associated to the entities based on external references to corresponding globally unique identifiers of the entities, and wherein the observability data is sourced by sources configured to populate, based on a corresponding observed entity, attribute fields and tenant-specified tag fields according to that corresponding observed entity.