Walmart Inc.
System and method for business process monitoring

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for monitoring a pipeline of data without modifying code or otherwise impeding the pipeline. This is accomplished by identifying a class of software functions which modify other software function upon execution without modifying code for the other software functions, monitoring a pipeline of data to identify a plurality of jobs, the each job in the plurality of jobs comprising header information and body information, initiating, for each job in the plurality of jobs, a plurality of processes, modifying the plurality of processes based on the class, to yield advice modified processes, and outputting a status of the advice modified processes without modifying the pipeline.