Patent ID: 8266276

Claim:
A method to request and present performance data for a plurality of domains, comprising: activating, via a browser, a probes application executable on a server to activate the probes application; in response to activating the probes application, presenting, via the browser, at least one parameter selection page for a user to select parameters related to performance data of a plurality of domains, wherein the domains include at least one application, at least one system, at least one network and at least one database and the parameters include configuration statistics, virtual memory statistics, input and output (I/O) statistics and processing statistics; receiving a user selection of at least one of the parameters; in response to the user selection of at least one of the parameters, controlling, via the probes application, collection of performance data associated with a plurality of probes, each probe associated with one of the plurality of domains, wherein the collection occurs via a low priority thread when higher priority threads associated with the domain are not performing normal functions, and wherein the performance data includes response time and memory usage by the plurality of domains; presenting, via the browser, over either a pre-determined time interval or a user-defined time interval, a pictorial representation of the retrieved performance data of the plurality of domains, wherein the pictorial representation includes a graph of the response time over the time interval and a graph of the memory usage over the time interval; and updating, at frequent time intervals, the pictorial representation of the retrieved performance data of the plurality of domains.