Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring the state of a workload executing with a Java virtual machine (JVM). A state monitoring agent receives performance measurement data associated with the JVM executing the JVM workload. The state monitoring agent then processes the performance measurement data to determine when individual performance measurement data values have remained beneath a predetermined performance threshold value for a predetermined time period. If so, the state monitoring agent generates predetermined state data, which is then provided through an application program interface (API).