Computer programs for use in measuring, gathering, aggregating, correlating, alerting, reporting or analyzing the usage, performance, capacity, management, system resources, or cost of computers, computing devices, distributed computing networks, namely, compute grids, data cache, and clusters, virtual infrastructures, virtual machines and servers, storage and storage networks, public or private data or voice networks, software applications, virtual software applications or software application fabrics; computer programs for use in modeling the performance, cost, return on investment of other computer programs, computers, computing devices, distributed computing networks, namely, compute grids, data cache, and clusters, storage and storage networks, public or private data or voice networks, software applications, virtual software applications or application fabrics; computer programs for use in metering consumption, resource provisioning, policy management, and capacity management of other computer programs, computers, computing devices, distributed computing networks, namely, compute grids, data cache, and clusters, storage and storage networks, public or private data or voice networks, software applications, virtual software applications or application fabrics, and in generating bills and chargeback based on such consumption; computer programs for use in monitoring computer networks