Method and system for automated agent injection in container environments

    公开(公告)号:US10977100B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-13

    申请号:US16565853

    申请日:2019-09-10

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    Abstract: A system and method is presented that installs an agent on a computer system that monitors the start of processes by the computer system and that identifies the start of processes that perform container management activities, like starting and stopping container environments. On start of a container manager process, the agent starts a container manager agent that establishes a monitoring connection to the container manager process. The container manager agent monitors activities performed by the container manager process to detect the start of new container environments by the container manager process. On detection of a container start, the container manager agent manipulates the container configuration in a way that a process type specific in-process agent is automatically injected into processes started inside the container.

    Method and system for automated agent injection in container environments

    公开(公告)号:US10417065B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-17

    申请号:US15618964

    申请日:2017-06-09

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    Abstract: A system and method is presented that installs an agent on a computer system that monitors the start of processes by the computer system and that identifies the start of processes that perform container management activities, like starting and stopping container environments. On start of a container manager process, the agent starts a container manager agent that establishes a monitoring connection to the container manager process. The container manager agent monitors activities performed by the container manager process to detect the start of new container environments by the container manager process. On detection of a container start, the container manager agent manipulates the container configuration in a way that a process type specific in-process agent is automatically injected into processes started inside the container.

    Automatic injection of agents into processes executing statically linked binaries

    公开(公告)号:US12141049B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-12

    申请号:US18533483

    申请日:2023-12-08

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for injecting in-process agents into processes executing self-contained, statically linked binaries that do not interact with a dynamic loader mechanism that identifies and resolves required libraries at run time. System calls directed to the execution of binaries in processes are intercepted and the targeted binary is analyzed to determine whether it is statically linked. In case a statically linked binary is identified, a proxy launcher process is started instead of the binary which starts the original binary as traceable child process. After the child process has loaded the original binary into its process memory, the memory image of the child process is copied to the launcher process and the child process is terminated. An agent is loaded into the launcher process to instruments the copied memory image. After the instrumentation is finished, the original start conditions for the statically linked binary are reconstructed and the entry function of the instrumented statically linked binary is called to execute the binary.

    Method and system for automated injection of process type specific in process agents on process startup

    公开(公告)号:US10579491B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-03

    申请号:US16409071

    申请日:2019-05-10

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed that installs an agent on a computer system that is configured to be automatically started at startup of the computer system and that is also configured to detect the startup of processes on the computer system. The agent determines the capabilities to monitor process starts that available on the computer systems and installs an appropriate process start monitoring procedure. The installed process start monitoring procedure detects the start of a process, installs a core agent into the execution context of the started process and manipulates the start sequence of the started process to initialize and start the core agent. On startup, the core agent analyzes the execution context of the started process to identify the type of application executed by the started process, and injects a special agent matching the identified type into the started process to perform application level monitoring.

    Automatic Injection Of Agents Into Processes Executing Statically Linked Binaries

    公开(公告)号:US20240111659A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-04

    申请号:US18533483

    申请日:2023-12-08

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    CPC classification number: G06F11/3644 G06F9/44521

    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for injecting in-process agents into processes executing self-contained, statically linked binaries that do not interact with a dynamic loader mechanism that identifies and resolves required libraries at run time. System calls directed to the execution of binaries in processes are intercepted and the targeted binary is analyzed to determine whether it is statically linked. In case a statically linked binary is identified, a proxy launcher process is started instead of the binary which starts the original binary as traceable child process. After the child process has loaded the original binary into its process memory, the memory image of the child process is copied to the launcher process and the child process is terminated. An agent is loaded into the launcher process to instruments the copied memory image. After the instrumentation is finished, the original start conditions for the statically linked binary are reconstructed and the entry function of the instrumented statically linked binary is called to execute the binary.

    Automatic injection of agents into processes executing statically linked binaries

    公开(公告)号:US11892939B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-06

    申请号:US17194861

    申请日:2021-03-08

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    CPC classification number: G06F11/3644 G06F9/44521

    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for injecting in-process agents into processes executing self-contained, statically linked binaries that do not interact with a dynamic loader mechanism that identifies and resolves required libraries at run time. System calls directed to the execution of binaries in processes are intercepted and the targeted binary is analyzed to determine whether it is statically linked. In case a statically linked binary is identified, a proxy launcher process is started instead of the binary which starts the original binary as traceable child process. After the child process has loaded the original binary into its process memory, the memory image of the child process is copied to the launcher process and the child process is terminated. An agent is loaded into the launcher process to instruments the copied memory image. After the instrumentation is finished, the original start conditions for the statically linked binary are reconstructed and the entry function of the instrumented statically linked binary is called to execute the binary.

    Method and system for automated injection of process type specific in-process agents on process startup

    公开(公告)号:US10289513B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15264949

    申请日:2016-09-14

    Applicant: Dynatrace LLC

    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed that installs an agent on a computer system that is configured to be automatically started at startup of the computer system and that is also configured to detect the startup of processes on the computer system. The agent determines the capabilities to monitor process starts that available on the computer systems and installs an appropriate process start monitoring procedure. The installed process start monitoring procedure detects the start of a process, installs a core agent into the execution context of the started process and manipulates the start sequence of the started process to initialize and start the core agent. On startup, the core agent analyzes the execution context of the started process to identify the type of application executed by the started process, and injects a special agent matching the identified type into the started process to perform application level monitoring.

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