Patent ID: 8849910

Claim:
A system for providing quality of service management for an application server workload manager, comprising: an http server that receives a plurality of requests to access information stored in a database, wherein each request is classified at the http server based on classification rules specified in a policy set stored on the http server, and wherein each classified request is assigned a priority based on that requests particular classification; a plurality of application servers that process the plurality of requests, wherein as the plurality of requests flow through the system, request metrics are collected from each request according to that particular request's classification; an administration server that includes an application server workload manager, wherein the application server workload manager communicates with the http server, and wherein upon receiving the plurality of requests at the http server the application server workload manager gathers metrics from the requests received at the plurality of application servers, wherein the gathered metrics are associated with the classification of the request received, and monitors system performance based on the metrics.