US Patent 10237149 Application-level monitoring and profiling services in computing environments

A computing platform comprises one or more virtual compute elements, virtual storage elements, and virtual networking elements, wherein one or more application programs of one or more tenants execute on the computing platform. An application program monitoring service layer comprises a set of monitoring service modules selectable by the one or more tenants. The monitoring service modules are configured to provide different application-level monitoring functions, for a given tenant, to monitor the execution of at least one installed application program of the given tenant. A selected monitoring service module executes in at least one virtual compute element that is part of a set of one or more virtual compute elements currently executing the at least one installed application program of the given tenant being monitored. The application program monitoring service layer further comprises a data collecting service module configured to receive application data from the monitoring service module.