ServiceNow, Inc.
Distributed tool for detecting states and state transitions in remote network management platforms

Abstract:

A computing system may involve a time-series server device and computing devices. The time-series server device may be configured to: receive and store pre-defined trigger configurations; receive and store time-series data, wherein the pre-defined trigger configurations define states and/or state transitions for the received time-series data; apply, by way of a trigger engine, the pre-defined trigger configurations to the received time-series data to determine observed states and/or state transitions in the time-series data; and store, in transition storage, representations of the observed states and/or state transitions. One or more applications operating on computing devices may be configured to: transmit the pre-defined trigger configurations to the time-series server; transmit a stream of the time-series data to the time-series server; and repeatedly poll and receive, by way of a plurality of worker threads, the representations of the observed states and/or state transitions from the transition storage.