Preemptive trouble shooting using dialog manager

A method of discovering problems in an application executing on a computing environment, the method performed by one or more processors, comprising:

• retrieving runtime execution information from an application executing on one or more computers;
• transforming the runtime information into a temporal sequence of events;
• determining that the temporal sequence of events is associated with a proven problem by comparing the temporal sequence of events with a database of historical problems;
• searching a knowledgebase for a dialog that has nodes in an order that match the temporal sequence of events according to a threshold degree;
• responsive to finding the dialog in the knowledgebase, launching the dialog on a user interface to interact with a user and guide the user through a problem identification and solution;
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• responsive to not finding the dialog, enabling additional instrumenter in the application executing on one or more computers to retrieve additional runtime execution information.