Patent 10481918 was granted and assigned to EMC on November, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques to determine an execution path in a distributed environment are disclosed. A call to a method or function of a component of the distributed system is received, in connection with a request from a user of the distributed system. A unique correlation identifier that includes data that identifies the component, the request, and the method of function called is generated for the call.