System and method for data payload collection monitoring and analysis in a transaction processing environment

A system for supporting data payload collection in a transaction processing environment, the system comprising:

• one or more microprocessors;
• and
• a processor, running on the one or more microprocessors, wherein the processor operates to perform steps comprising:
• providing, a monitoring framework, including a data collection engine, the monitoring framework monitoring a transaction within the middleware machine environment;
• capturing, at the monitoring framework, transactional procedure data of the monitored transaction;
• writing the transactional procedure data in a self-describing format to a buffer, wherein the self-describing format carries filter information and user payload data;
• and
• filtering, based on the filter information, the user payload data from the self-describing data format.

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for supporting data payload collection in a transaction processing environment that when executed cause a system to perform steps comprising:

• providing, a monitoring framework, including a data collection engine, the monitoring framework monitoring a transaction within the middleware machine environment;
• capturing, at the monitoring framework, transactional procedure data of the monitored transaction;
• writing the transactional procedure data in a self-describing format to a buffer, wherein the self-describing format carries filter information and user payload data;
• and
• filtering, based on the filter information, the user payload data from the self-describing data format.