Monitoring service choreographies

The document describes an approach for monitoring automated choreographed business processes. Process choreographies are characterized by a chain of single processes. The progress state of the whole process chain and each of its components is regarded as an important information to gather. This paper depicts a general method for monitoring process choreographies. The described approach is based on unified process instance log structure. A system architecture to enable monitoring in a decentralized network is introduced as well. It uses common web service technologies to log execution data and to supervise the process chains. It therefore can be integrated into any business process execution environment. The application of the described method for online and offline monitoring is examined for feasibility and discussed in detail.