Patent ID: 8341464

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for providing a diagnostic dashboard by a web application, the method comprising: presenting a web page to a user from the web application; receiving a diagnostic mode indication; activating a diagnostic mode at one or more servers associated with the web application; collecting diagnostic information, wherein the collected diagnostic information is displayed through a diagnostic dashboard frame presented over a portion of the web page; displaying the collected diagnostic information on the web page while continuing to display at least a portion of the web page contents; and continuing to display actual contents of the web page over another portion of the web page in a reduced format, wherein a size ratio of the diagnostic dashboard frame and the actual contents of the web page is determined based on one of: a predefined default value, and a dynamic adjustment process, wherein a location of the diagnostic dashboard frame and the actual contents of the web page is determined based on one of: a predefined default value, and a dynamic adjustment process.