AGENTLESS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING AND INSPECTING APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES IN COMPUTE ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

A system method for application discovery in a computing environment utilize static analysis. The method includes receiving data of an application, the application deployed on a workload in a first computing environment; detecting a plurality of anchor points in the data; and generating an application graph, including a plurality of first nodes, based on the plurality of anchor points, wherein each anchor point corresponds to a first node, and wherein at least a first node of the plurality of nodes is connected to at least another node of the plurality of nodes.

Description

Claims

1. A method for application discovery in a computing environment utilizing static analysis, comprising: receiving data of an application, the application deployed on a workload in a first computing environment;detecting a plurality of anchor points in the data; andgenerating an application graph, including a plurality of first nodes, based on the plurality of anchor points, wherein each anchor point corresponds to a first node, and wherein at least a first node of the plurality of nodes is connected to at least another node of the plurality of nodes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the application is configured to interact with at least another application, wherein the another application is deployed on another workload.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the data includes at least computer executable code, and at least a first anchor point of the plurality of anchor points is a code object in the computer executable code.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least a first anchor point is detected from the application, and a second anchor point is detected in the at least another application, wherein the first anchor point and the second anchor point are connected to each other in the application graph.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising: generating an instruction which when executed by a processing circuitry configures a collector to collect data from the another workload.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: updating the application graph with a plurality of secondary nodes, each secondary node representing an object which has a relationship with an anchor point.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising: receiving runtime data of the application; anddetermining the relationship between each secondary node and the anchor point based on the received runtime data.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising: generating a path based on the application graph between a node representing a first anchor point and a node representing second anchor point, wherein the path indicates that data flows in the application from the first anchor point to the second anchor point.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: generating dynamic analysis of the application.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein an anchor point is any one of: a function calling a database, a representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) call, and a service request.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing a processing circuitry to execute a process, the process comprising: receiving data of an application, the application deployed on a workload in a first computing environment;detecting a plurality of anchor points in the data; and generating an application graph, including a plurality of first nodes, based on the plurality of anchor points, wherein each anchor point corresponds to a first node, and wherein at least a first node of the plurality of nodes is connected to at least another node of the plurality of nodes.

12. A system application discovery in a computing environment utilizing static analysis, comprising: a processing circuitry; anda memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to: receive data of an application, the application deployed on a workload in a first computing environment;detect a plurality of anchor points in the data; andgenerate an application graph, including a plurality of first nodes, based on the plurality of anchor points, wherein each anchor point corresponds to a first node, and wherein at least a first node of the plurality of nodes is connected to at least another node of the plurality of nodes.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the application is configured to interact with at least another application, wherein the another application is deployed on another workload.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the data includes at least computer executable code, and at least a first anchor point of the plurality of anchor points is a code object in the computer executable code.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the memory further contains instructions that when executed by the processing circuitry further configure the system to: detect the at least a first anchor point from the application, anddetect a second anchor point in the at least another application, wherein the first anchor point and the second anchor point are connected to each other in the application graph.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the memory further contains instructions that when executed by the processing circuitry further configure the system to: configure a collector to collect data from the another workload.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the memory further contains instructions that when executed by the processing circuitry further configure the system to: update the application graph with a plurality of secondary nodes, each secondary node representing an object which has a relationship with an anchor point.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the memory further contains instructions that when executed by the processing circuitry further configure the system to: receive runtime data of the application; anddetermine the relationship between each secondary node and the anchor point based on the received runtime data.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the memory further contains instructions that when executed by the processing circuitry further configure the system to: generate a path based on the application graph between a node representing a first anchor point and a node representing second anchor point, wherein the path indicates that data flows in the application from the first anchor point to the second anchor point.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein an anchor point is any one of: a function calling a database, a representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) call, and a service request.