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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Virtual Instruments Worldwide, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Francis Niestemski, Longmeadow, MA (US);
Devin Blinn Avery, Madbury, NH (US);
Ryan E. Perkowski, Middletown, DE (US);
Nicholas York, San Ramon, CA (US);
Virtual Instruments Worldwide, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method comprises receiving a virtual machine identifiers, receiving VM identifier indicating an application instance, for each application instance: determining a tier of service, assigning the tier of service to the VM executing that particular application, assigning a polling interval to the application instance based on the assigned tier of service, retrieving metrics from each application instances at the polling interval, for each of the plurality of VM: determining a mapping that maps each virtual machine to a host, assigning the tier of service to the host, assigning at least one polling interval to the VM, retrieving metrics of the VM at the assigned polling interval, assigning a polling interval to each host, retrieving metrics from each hosts at the assigned polling interval, comparing each of the received metrics associated tier metrics thresholds, if an alarm trigger condition is satisfied, then triggering an alarm event, and outputting an alarm notification.