MODELING APPLICATION PERFORMANCE USING EVOLVING FUNCTIONS

An application performance monitoring system monitors a system having multiple components, automatically calculates a performance metric for the system, and determines a relationship between components of the software system that effect the performance metric. The system is configured to automatically generate a model of behavior of the performance metric using a genetic search process that randomly creates a set of functions and evolves those functions over multiple generations with evolution being skewed by a rule based on the determined relationship between components.