US Patent 7623463 Performance evaluation of a network-based application

A solution for evaluating a performance of a network-based application is provided. A transaction performed by the application is decomposed into multiple components. One or more resources for each component are identified and performance data for each identified resource is obtained while the application processes the transaction. Based on the performance data, the performance of the application is evaluated. In this manner, the performance of the application can be comprehensively evaluated.