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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2010
Saurabh Mahajan, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Shubin, Redmond, WA (US);
Kevin Thomas Damour, Redmond, WA (US);
Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);
Lihua Yuan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Saurabh Mahajan, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Shubin, Redmond, WA (US);
Kevin Thomas Damour, Redmond, WA (US);
Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);
Lihua Yuan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Today, data networks are ever increasing in size and complexity. For example, a datacenter may comprise hundreds of thousands of service endpoints configured to perform work. To reduce network wide degradation, a load balancer may send work requests to healthy service endpoints, as opposed to unhealthy and/or inoperative service endpoints. Accordingly, among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques for monitoring service endpoints, which may be scalable for large scale networks, are provided. In particular, a consistent hash function may be performed to generate a monitoring scheme comprising assignments of service endpoints to monitoring groups. In this way, multiple monitoring components may monitor a subset of endpoints to ascertain health status. Additionally, the monitoring components may communicate between one another so that a monitoring component may know heath statuses of service endpoints both assigned and not assigned to the monitoring component.