Monitoring events in a computer network

A method of monitoring events in a computer network, the method comprising:

• said computer network triggering said events, each event being provided with attribute values allocated to a given set of attributes,
• providing an event display with a cross plot having x and y coordinate axes, the x-axis presenting a time period and the y-axis presenting an attribute value range,
• determining a primary attribute of the events selected from the given set of attributes to be presented with its attribute values on the y-axis of the cross plot,
• allocating a first display label to the events indicating the attribute values of the primary attribute, providing a pattern algorithm to detect whether an arrived event is part of the given pattern on the basis of a comparison of the attributes allocated to the given pattern and of the attributes assigned to the arrived event, providing a mapping algorithm to map any attribute value of an attribute selected from the given set of attributes onto the y-axis of the cross plot,
• allocating a second display label to the events indicating the attribute values of the attributes being uncovered as part of the given pattern, plotting all the events arrived within the time period and including an attribute value allocated to the primary attribute into the cross plot with the first display label indicating the primary attribute, the position of the first display label of each event in the cross plot being determined on the basis of the attribute value of the primary attribute of the event and its arrival time, and
• plotting the all events arrived within the time period and being detected by means of the pattern algorithm as part of the given pattern into the cross plot with the second display label indicating the given pattern, the position of the second display label of each event in the cross plot being determined by the mapping algorithm on the basis of the attribute value of the attribute of the event being uncovered as part of the given pattern and its arrival time.