Patent ID: 8856309

Claim:
A networked computing system comprising: a group of nodes in which each node of the group of nodes has a local statistic agent configured to maintain application-related statistical data on local execution in the node; and a statistic tool comprising a processor and instructions stored in a memory, wherein, when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the statistic tool to implement: a statistic manager for storing the application-related statistical data obtained from the group of nodes; and a global statistic server for: a) processing a first request from another computing system concerning the execution of an application by gathering, from the statistic manager, the application-related statistical data of at least a first node of the group of nodes which intervenes in the execution of the application; and b) forwarding, to a callback server of at least the first node or another node of the group of nodes, a second request from the other computing system or a further computing system for statistical system information of the first node or the other node of the group of nodes, wherein the callback server sends the requested statistical system information to a destination address separate from the networked computing system.