Patent ID: 7428734

Claim:
A method for presenting event associations between events from one or more event flows on a display screen of a computer, comprising: parsing at least one log file to generate the event associations and to suppress non-associated events, wherein the at least one log file comprises the events from the one or more event flows; generating said event associations by selecting associated events from said one or more event flows in accordance with one or more predetermined parameters, wherein the predetermined parameters include time of occurrence; constructing multiple sequence diagram representations at lower levels in a first sequence diagram representation, wherein a user drills down from the first sequence diagram representation to the lower levels, and wherein the first sequence diagram representation and the multiple sequence diagram representations show interactions arranged in a time sequence for methods, objects, classes, threads, and processes, and wherein said first sequence diagram representation comprises timelines for said one or more event flows and directional paths between said timelines for said event associations, and wherein the multiple sequence diagram representations comprise a level of detail between objects located on threads in the first sequence diagram representation that are collapsible, wherein the event associations are selected according to the predetermined parameters; and displaying said first sequence diagram representation on said display screen.