US 11,875,202 B2
Visualizing API invocation flows in containerized environments
Chenthilraj Lakshmikanthan, Bangalore (IN); and Ahamed Jalaldeen Shahul Hamid, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/471,507.
Prior Publication US 2023/0083684 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/547 (2013.01) 20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for visualizing end-to-end flow of microservice invocations from a coarse-granular application programming interface (“API”) within a containerized environment, the computer implemented method comprising:
intercepting the coarse-granular API request at an ingress within the containerized environment;
annotating the coarse granular API request with a unique identifier (“ID”);
monitoring one or more invocations resulting from the coarse granular API request;
annotating one or more functions within one or more microservices invoked by the coarse-granular API request with a respective sequence number; and
generating an invocation flow for the coarse-granular API request based on the unique ID associated with the coarse-granular API request and the respective sequence number associated with the one or more functions within the one or more microservices.