Patent ID: 9514027
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for monitoring an application, comprising: collecting metric data representing one or more defined events emitted from the application, the collected metric data being associated with one or more metrics of the monitored application; organizing the collected metric data into first and second trees, the first and second trees individually comprising permutations of different subsets of the metrics of the monitored application and having a hierarchy of one or more nodes individually representing one of the metrics of the monitored application; for the first and second trees, at each node, aggregating the collected metric data from nodes further down the first or second tree; displaying the aggregated metric data of a first metric and an associated first metric tag to the user, the first metric being associated with a first node in the first tree; receiving a user selection of the displayed first metric tag; and in response to the received user selection of the first metric tag, displaying the aggregated metric data of a second metric to the user according to a predefined drill down path, the second metric being associated with a second node in the second tree.