1. A system to synthesize metric attributes from available MBean attributes comprising: an application server that exposes available metric attributes of a MBean; a network management console that displays for selection said attributes on a navigation tree; a view panel located on said network management console where said attributes are dragged; wherein custom attributes are created by combining available attributes of said MBeans by the application server or customer MBeans if they are deployed on the application server, wherein said attributes are combined to synthesize custom attributes to create an expression.