Patent ID: 8082275

Claim:
A method, comprising: recording a plurality of changes, over a time period, to a computing environment, at least one change from the plurality of changes being associated with a service impact to the computing environment; defining within a first directed acyclic graph a first state of the computing environment at a first time within the time period based on the plurality of changes, the first directed acyclic graph including a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of devices within the computing environment, each node from the plurality of nodes having a state; defining within a second directed acyclic graph a second state of the computing environment at a second time within the time period based on the plurality of changes; calculating a level of activity related to the computing environment over at least a portion of the time period; and triggering display of the first directed acyclic graph and display of the second directed acyclic graph at variable speeds based on the level of activity related to the computing environment over the at least the portion of the time period.