Abstract: A system and method to allow an individual transaction in an instrumented software application to be monitored according to its own configuration. In one preferred embodiment, each transaction is associated with a token. The token includes the monitoring configuration that should be used for the associated transaction. When the application entry point is reached for the transaction, the token is looked up and retrieved, and the monitoring policy configuration of the token determines what data is gathered about the transaction.

Abstract: A potential multicomputer related problem is predicted and reported by determining a set of computer resources and relationships there between needed to complete a multicomputer business transaction, retrieving performance monitoring metrics for the computer resources during executions of the multicomputer transaction, dynamically deriving correlations between the resource relationships and the performance metrics, comparing a trend of the correlations to one or more service level requirements to predict one or more potential future violations of a business transaction requirement, including identification of one or more related resources likely to cause the violation, and reporting such prediction and likely case to an administrator.