Method for vertical integrated performance and environment monitoring

A monitoring method for monitoring a computer system, the monitoring method comprising steps of:

• defining one or more events to provide a unified specification, at runtime;
• registering at least one of the one or more events to be detected, wherein the event is selected from a group consisting of logging the events to a single logical entity, gathering statistics of the events to the single logical entity, and handling of the events in a customized manner;
• creating a consumer of the at least one of the one or more events registered using the unified specification;
• gathering statistics of the one or more events registered, the statistics selected from a group consisting of a count, a maximum, a minimum, an average, a median, a standard deviation, and a variance;
• handling the one or more events registered in a customized way by allowing the definition of a callback routine to be invoked when the one or more events occurs;
• registering an entry specifying events to occur only within a specific context, wherein the context is selected from the group consisting of a partition, an operating system, a process, and a thread;
• detecting an occurrence of at least one of the one or more events registered;
• generating a monitoring entry each time at least one of the one or more events is detected;
• determining the performance of the system;
• monitoring the performance of the system;
• dynamically enabling and disabling the step of generating monitoring entries based on the performance determination;
• dynamically enabling and disabling the step of detecting of an occurrence based on the performance determination;
• determining security violations;
• specifying the events registered to occur at intervals, specific frequencies, or based on triggers;
• deregistering the event registered;
• and
• entering each monitoring entry generated into a single logical entity.