Patent ID: 7516209

Claim:
A method for tracking an execution of a single request across a request identification boundary in a computer system the method comprising: providing a trace log for recording one or more events that occur during the execution of the single request across the request identification boundary, the request identification boundary comprising a change to an identification of the single request during the occurrence of the one or more events, the request identification boundary selected from a group of request identification boundaries including processing the single request by a first and a second server component; first recording, within the trace log, a first event including a first request identification; second recording, within the trace log, a second event including a second request identification; storing linking information, within the trace log comprising marking, within the trace log, the change to the identification of the single request from the first request identification to the second request identification, and wherein the linking information comprises a request identification transition event record, and wherein the request identification transition event record includes: a transition event identifier, the first request identification, and the second request identification.