Method for generating process protocols in a distributed IT infrastructure

A method for generating process protocols from process data in an IT system with at least one extraction node, at least one storage node, and at least one transformation node, said process data being stored in at least one client system of the IT system, wherein:

• an application catalog is run on a server system of the IT system, and
• a number of application templates are managed using the application catalog, each application template comprising an installation program and configuration data, wherein
• the installation program is used to instantiate, configure, and run each application template on the server system as an application,
• the applications being run are monitored and managed by a runtime component which is run on the server system, and
• the process protocols are ascertained from the process data according to a number of control instructions which are run on the at least one extraction node, the at least one storage node, and the at least one transformation node, the configuration data of each application comprising information on which control instructions are run on which of the at least one extraction node, the at least one storage node, or the at least one transformation node.