Patent Document ID: 20130346594
Application ID: 13531616
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for determining threshold conditions for performing operations within a performance monitoring tool, comprising: collecting, by the data processing system, performance metric data from a computing system environment; performing, by the data processing system, clustering analysis on the performance metric data to generate a plurality of clusters of performance metric data for one or more performance metrics; selecting, by the data processing system, one or more candidate clusters in the plurality of clusters that are candidate clusters for generating a threshold condition for performance monitoring; generating, by the data processing system, at least one threshold condition for performance monitoring based on a composition of the selected one or more candidate clusters; and applying the at least one threshold condition to future performance metric data to determine whether to perform an operation in response to the future performance metric data meeting or not meeting the at least one threshold condition.