Transaction Model With Structural And Behavioral Description Of Complex Transactions

A computer-implemented method for providing a model for tracking flows through at least one application, the method comprising:

• receiving data from agents which monitor software components which are invoked during transactions involving the at least one application, the data includes fields of information for at least one of the software components;
• determining if the model includes a vertex record consistent with the fields of information;
• if the model does not includes the vertex record, providing the vertex record in the model to represent the at least one of the software components;
• based on the fields of information, providing an edge record which identifies a call involving the at least one of the software components;
• linking the edge record to the vertex record;
• based on the fields of information, providing a transaction record which identifies one of the transactions which involve the at least one of the software components;
• and
• linking the transaction record to the edge record.

At least one tangible, non-transitory processor-readable storage device having processor-readable software embodied thereon for programming at least one processor to perform a method for tracking flows through at least one application, the method comprising:

• providing vertex records which identify software components which are invoked during transactions involving the at least one application;
• providing edge records which identify calls between the software components, the edge records are linked to the vertex records;
• providing transaction records which identify the transactions, and which are linked to the edge records, the transaction records represent a transaction hierarchy, the transaction hierarchy comprising the transactions at one level of the transaction hierarchy and one or more groupings of the transactions at a first higher level of the transaction hierarchy;
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• providing a directed graph in a user interface display, the directed graph includes vertexes based on the vertex records and edges based on the edge records, and the vertexes are arranged according to the transaction hierarchy.