Patent ID: 7925745

Claim:
A monitoring apparatus that monitors operations of an information processing apparatus that notifies occurrence of breakdown which occurs during execution of a predetermined information processing operation, the monitoring apparatus comprising: a memory section that includes two or more storage areas each of which includes two or more storage sections corresponding to data sizes different from one another, the two or more storage areas being arranged to be associated with each of two or more breakdown types which are mutually different in seriousness of breakdown; a data deriving section that derives from the information processing apparatus state data representative of an apparatus state of the information processing apparatus, when the data deriving section receives a notification of occurrence of a breakdown by the information processing apparatus; a breakdown classification section that classifies the breakdown associated with the notification into a breakdown type corresponding to a seriousness of the notified breakdown; and a data storage section that stores the state data derived by the data deriving section in a storage section corresponding to a data size of the derived state data in a storage area corresponding to the breakdown type classified by the breakdown classification section, of the two or more storage areas.