Business-centric monitoring of service composites

Monitoring enterprise applications that consist of multiple heterogeneous components executing in different runtimes is a challenging problem particularly from a business centric perspective. We propose a business centric monitoring approach that involves using business information fields (invariants) to relate service activity to business composite execution. In this paper we provide an overview of the functionality of the 'Global Monitoring Context' feature in IBM's Business Monitor v7.5 product which embodies our business-centric monitoring approach. © 2011 ACM.