US 12,438,800 B2
Cloud native observability migration and assessment
Walter Theodore Hulick, Jr., Pearland, TX (US); David John Zacks, Vancouver (CA); and Thomas Szigeti, Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/185,504.
Application 19/185,504 is a continuation of application No. 18/215,508, filed on Jun. 28, 2023, granted, now 12,284,105.
Prior Publication US 2025/0247318 A1, Jul. 31, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 43/065 (2022.01); H04L 43/50 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 43/50 (2013.01) [H04L 43/065 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
monitoring traffic in a network at a first time to collect telemetry data related to deployment of cloud-native monitoring instrumentation;
using the telemetry data to detect presence of one or more monitoring agents within the network by detecting OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) data;
monitoring traffic in the network at a subsequent time to collect additional telemetry data related to the deployment of cloud-native monitoring instrumentation;
using the additional telemetry data to detect the presence of one or more monitoring agents within the network by detecting OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) data;
comparing the telemetry data, the additional telemetry data, and stored monitoring inventory data to automatically discover differences in cloud-native observability instrumentation coverage within the network; and
generating an updated inventory reflecting the automatically discovered differences in cloud-native observability instrumentation coverage within the network.