Patent ID: 8347268

Claim:
A computer implemented method for performance tracking, the method comprising: monitoring performance of a computing system over a period of time, wherein the performance of the computing system is classified using four possible quadrant states; based on results of the performance monitoring, determining a plurality of performance states of the computing system at a corresponding plurality of monitoring times spread over the period of time, wherein the plurality of performance states are determined from the four possible quadrant states for the computing system, and wherein the four possible quadrant states are: a state representing low system stress and poor quality of service; a state representing low system stress and good quality of service; a state representing high system stress and good quality of service; and a state representing high system stress and poor quality of service; wherein system stress refers to hardware resource utilization of the computing system, and wherein quality of service refers to responsiveness and throughput of software of the computing system; based on results of the performance monitoring, determining a plurality of performance state transitions of the computing system over the period of time, wherein the plurality of performance state transitions are performance state transitions between sequential pairs of performance states of the four possible quadrant states; based on the plurality of performance state transitions of the computing system, making one or more capacity planning recommendations; and based on the plurality of performance states of the computing system, displaying an indication of health of the computing system.