The present invention provides for monitoring the health of a system. In
one embodiment, a method includes storing benchmark data in a memory,
storing a second plurality of system data indicative of system conditions
during system operations, determining from the second plurality of system
data that the system was operating at a steady state capacity level
during at least one sample window of the system operations, associating
the steady state capacity level of the at least one sample window with
the benchmark data, retrieving first health data for parameters
associated with a first health condition from the first plurality of
system data, retrieving second health data for parameters associated with
the first health condition from the second plurality of system data that
were obtained during the at least one sample window, comparing the health
data and determining if the second health data is indicative of a health
condition.