Centralized monitoring and early warning operations console

An application monitoring system, comprising:

• a monitor component to monitor an application in operation;
• a trigger component to analyze the statistics of the application monitored by the monitor component and compare the statistics of the application with a threshold and generate a trigger signal based on the relationship of the statistics to the threshold;
• a dashboard component operable to identify the application to monitor and provide the threshold related to the application to monitor;
• and
• a requestor component coupled to promote communication between the dashboard component and the monitor component, wherein the monitor component is further defined as an information service layer.

A method of monitoring an application, comprising:

• selecting an application having data related to metrics of the application to be monitored;
• providing a service layer for retrieving data, the service layer including:
• a control system having a registry and operable to receive a request for data, the request including a source identifier and a data identifier,
• a client service operable to register with the control system and receive the request for data, the client service further operable to communicate a requested data related to the data identifier, and
• a retrieval service operable to utilize at least a portion of the source identifier to retrieve the requested data related to the data identifier and communicate the requested data to the client service;
• requesting the data from the service layer, the data related to metrics of the application;
• receiving the data via the information service layer;
• establishing a threshold for the data;
• monitoring the data related to metrics of the application;
• analyzing the data based on the threshold established for the data;
• and
• signaling when the data exceeds the threshold.