EFFICIENT DATA COLLECTION MECHANISM IN MIDDLEWARE RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT

A mechanism for efficient collection of data is described for runtime middleware environments. Two frequencies are used, a collection frequency (CF) to collect the data and an aggregation frequency (AF) to aggregate and persist the data in a repository. The collection cycle is a shorter time interval than the aggregation cycle. An agent residing in the container periodically collects a set of data upon every collection cycle from the components of the middleware system and caches the set of data locally. Upon every aggregation cycle, the agent applies an aggregation function to the collected set of data and persists the set of data into a repository after the aggregation function has been applied. The aggregation function is such that it resulting data represents the behavior of the runtime environment in the total duration of the aggregation cycle.