Patent ID: 7389447

Claim:
A method of providing a filtered message log for display for an event monitor that generates event messages from a data stream, the event messages having at least a first level category and a second level category related hierarchically to the first level category, comprising the steps of: storing the event messages in a message log; updating an alert status for the first level category in an alerts status log for each event message; updating an alert status for the second level category in the alerts status log for each event message; automatically filtering the event messages in the message log according to filter criteria determined by a first component and a second component to provide the filtered message log for display, the first component being selected from a display of the first level category based on the alert status for the first level category, and the second component being selected from a display of the second level category based on the alert status for the second level category, the display of the second level category resulting from the selection of the first component; and displaying the filtered message log on a display; the storing step further comprising the steps of: storing the event messages in a plurality of event mini-logs according to an event identifier associated with each event message, each event mini-log being associated with a different event identifier; and storing the event messages in a plurality of secondary mini-logs according to a secondary identifier associated with each event message each secondary mini-log being associated with a different secondary identifier.