Abstract: Systems, methods, architectures and/or apparatus providing a visualization tool wherein an initial or simplified correlation tree includes a path between two hierarchically related objects; namely, a root cause object and an object representing an entity associated with an event of interest caused by the root cause entity, wherein the correlation tree may be incrementally increased in size and complexity in response to user input, such as via a graphical user interface, such that the user attention is focused on the specific entities and their relationships to thereby enable a user to quickly understand the various failure relationships.