a system and method includes steps , or acts , of : defining one or more events to provide a unified specification ; registering one or more events to be detected ; detecting an occurrence of at least one of the registered event or events ; generating a monitoring entry each time one of the registered events is detected ; and entering each of the monitoring entries generated into a single logical entity . the method can also be implemented as machine executable instructions executed by a programmable information processing system or as hard coded logic in a specialized computing apparatus such as an application - specific integrated circuit .