Patent ID: 7805509

Claim:
A system for monitoring a selected tier in a multi-tier computing environment, said system comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that configure the CPU to: implement a context agent associated with said selected tier of said computing environment, said context agent being coupled with other context agents, each of said other context agents associated with a respective tier of said computing environment; and implement a dynamic tier extension, said dynamic tier extension coupled with said context agent and with at least a request entry port of said selected tier, at least for monitoring request traffic passing through said selected tier, said monitored request traffic including at least one entering request received at said request entry port from an adjacent tier of said computing environment, said dynamic tier extension providing request information to said context agent, said request information at least identifying each request included in said monitored request traffic, said context agent for receiving context information directly from another context agent associated with said adjacent tier, said received context information relating to the request context of said at least one entering request, said context agent also for associating said context information with said request information for each said at least one entering request.