Component based, customizable design environment for complex analysis processes on monitoring data

A computer-implemented system for analyzing monitoring data in a distributed computing environment, comprising:

• a monitoring data repository stores monitoring data, where the monitoring data describes execution of computing resources in the distributed computing environment;
• a topology model includes topology entities which collectively describe a network topology of the computing resources comprising the distributed computing environment and defines relationships between the computing resources;
• a topology dependency analyzer configured to receive an observation event, wherein the topology dependency analyzer identifies functional dependencies with the given topology entity by traversing the topology model according to configuration data and generates a local analysis request event, where the observation event contains data for an unexpected situation described by monitoring data and data identifying a given topology entity on which the observed event was observed, and the configuration data specifies how to traverse the topology model, and the local analysis request event identifies a specific topology entity on which to perform further analysis;
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• a local analyzer configured to receive the local analysis request event from the topology dependency analyzer and retrieve monitoring data from the monitoring data repository for the specific topology entity, wherein the local analyzer analyzes the monitoring data associated with the specific topology entity and, in response to the analysis, generates a local analysis result event.