Federated transaction path and service level agreement monitoring across service oriented application partner domains

A system for monitoring a transaction that crosses an enterprise boundary in a composite application, comprising:

• a processing unit, the processing unit comprising:
• a request receiving mechanism for a provider enterprise of the transaction to receive a request to provide transaction monitoring data to a requestor enterprise of the transaction, wherein the received request comprises a correlation token that contains a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields including fields that identify the transaction monitoring data to be provided and that identify the requestor enterprise as being authorized to receive the transaction monitoring data;
• an authenticating mechanism, responsive to receiving the request to provide the transaction monitoring data, for the provider enterprise to authenticate the requestor enterprise as being authorized to receive the transaction monitoring data;
• and
• a providing mechanism, responsive to authenticating the requestor enterprise as being authorized to receive the transaction monitoring data, for the provider enterprise to provide the transaction monitoring data to the requestor enterprise, wherein the plurality of fields further includes a field that identifies a time interval for which the monitoring data is to be provided.