A system and a method to provide a visual landscape of a server-centric application framework (SCAF) with multiple tiers, multiple components, component interactions, and performance monitoring and analysis. The system and method includes a multi-tiered visual display of component interactions, tuning, monitoring, and analyzing of custom-developed application server components, and alert system for production grade performance monitoring. The system is comprised of a native agent, which interfaces with the an appropriate SCAF machine running the SCAF application server. The agent gathers and sends data transactionally to an enterprise data collector that persists the data and authenticates users/permissions to view the data. The displayed data may include component links, interactions, response times, transaction time degradations, general object performance metrics, and hardware/process performance data. Further, a data-mining system allows access to reporting and analysis tools that aid in delivering optimization recommendations to administrator and developers.