Patent ID: 8510720

Claim:
A computer-accessible, non-transitory, storage medium encoded with computer-readable instructions configured to cause one or more data processing apparatus to: generate a globally unique identifier (GUID) of a first business process that is associated with a trace; identify a trace filter associated with the first business process, the trace filter defining a set of business process event information to be recorded during a trace associated with the first business process; store the GUID in a listing that associates the GUID with the first business process, the listing further including a plurality of additional GUIDs associated with a plurality of additional business processes; retrieve the GUID from the listing and the identified trace filter associated with the first business process and transmit the GUID and the identified trace filter to a remote computer to associate the GUID and the identified trace filter with a second business process, where the second business process uses the identified trace filter to determine the set of business process event information to record during the trace; receive a request to collect trace records associated with the trace of the first business process based on the associated GUID, the request generated automatically in response to completion of the first business process; collect a first local set of trace records associated with a trace analysis and associated GUID of the first business process in response to the received request; transmit, to a remote computer system associated with the second business process, a request for trace records associated with the GUID and the one or more trace analyses and of the one or more related business processes; and receive, from the remote computer system associated with the second business process, a second set of trace records associated with the GUID and generated by the trace analysis of the second business processes, the second set of trace records comprising one or more events traced during the execution of the second business process.