Patent Document ID: 10122599
Application ID: 13655451
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for use with a network application performance monitoring system, the method comprising: monitoring incoming network traffic and a rate at which the traffic is being analyzed using an analysis process; and dynamically adjusting, in response to monitoring the incoming network traffic and the rate at which the traffic is being analyzed including layer 7 application analysis, layer 4 application analysis and network performance level analysis, a selected parameter of the monitoring process to adjust application performance analysis completeness, the analysis being performed on the observed network traffic wherein dynamically adjusting application performance analysis completeness comprises: computing an amount of time that analysis by the application performance monitoring system can continue without dropping incoming packets; comparing the amount of time to a first threshold; and adjusting completeness of application performance analysis based on results of comparing the amount of time to the first threshold including eliminating a subset of the following analyses: network performance level analysis, layer 4 application analysis, and layer 7 application analysis.