Patent ID: 7617313

Claim:
A method for monitoring system metrics in a production environment, the method comprising: measuring system metrics comprising at least a system throughput and a system load from a plurality of systems in the production environment; reporting at least the system throughput and the system load to a monitoring computer; storing at least the system throughput and the system load by the monitoring computer; exporting at least the system throughput and the system load from the monitoring computer to a database; analyzing at least the system throughput and the system load in the database to identify correlations between the system metrics; modeling the system throughput as a function of system load by fitting a non-linear curve to the system throughput and system load to obtain a non-linear model of at least the system throughput as a function of the system load; forecasting system performance in a production environment using the modeling of at least the system throughput as a function of the system load; identifying a threshold for the system throughput at which system performance becomes unacceptable; measuring the system throughput against the identified threshold; and triggering an alarm to a system administrator when the system throughput exceeds the identified threshold.