Patent ID: 8000932

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of reducing reporting of system metrics, the method comprising: obtaining first sampled values of a first system metric with at least one agent; determining a weighted moving average of a plurality of the first sampled values; deriving a non-reporting range from the weighted moving average, the non-reporting range defined by at least one threshold parameter determined from the weighted moving average; and withholding reporting of one or more of the first sampled values to a system performance monitor only if the one or more first sampled values are within the non-reporting range, wherein the weighted moving average includes an exponential weighted moving average d n (w) for an n'th sample of the first system metric, and wherein the exponential weighted moving average d n (w) is determined from an exponential weighted moving average d n−1 (w) for an (n−1)'th sample and a weight w, where d n (w)=d n w+ d n−1 (1−w).