Patent ID: 7051339
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system performance monitoring system having a computer readable medium comprising: an application program interface for monitoring a computer application executed on computer system, said application program interface comprising: software code added to said computer application for assigning, without predefining events describing potential stages of a transaction to be executed by said computer application, a single general reference to characteristic transactional information associated with a transaction to be executed by said computer application in order to identify transaction events performed by said computer application; an agent for marking a time at which said software code is executed and tagging that time with said characteristic transactional information as said characteristic transactional information is being currently processed by the computer application; an aggregator for calculating computer application latency data from raw timing data produced by said agent; a database for storing said raw computer application timing data and said latency data.