Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performance management methodology and exception report workflows in a performance management system. A performance management methodology workflow may assist a user in performing a plurality of performance management tasks in a performance management system: detecting a performance problem in a computer system, identifying a root cause of the performance problem in a particular application tier or particular system component, improving the performance of the computer system by implementing a solution to the root cause, and verifying that the solution to the root cause has improved the performance problem. An exception report workflow may include defining a plurality of exceptions for a managed computer system comprising a plurality of application tiers. One or more of the plurality of exceptions is triggered in response to collected performance metrics.