A tracking system includes a business system using a plurality of application modules each including a computer for processing a transaction including a plurality of steps. A messaging system includes a messaging computer program embodied in a computer readable medium in each of the computers for communicating between the computers. The messaging system generates queues of messages being communicated between the computers. The messaging system can be configured by an administrator to generate tracking data about the messages being communicated between the computers. A tracking module is included in one of the computers, and has the messaging computer program and a tracking computer program embodied in the computer readable medium for specifying status data for retrieval from the messaging queues, receiving the status data from the messaging queues into a tracking queue, and storing the status data in a data storage system.