1. A method for facilitating forensic analysis of operational data for an IT infrastructure, comprising the steps of: (a) deriving performance data from a plurality of physical systems, network elements and storage devices in an IT infrastructure via a toolset comprising a plurality of IT monitoring and metrics tools, wherein each tool is communicatively interfaced with one or more of the physical systems, network elements and storage devices; (b) importing the performance data into an integrated forensics platform; (c) aggregating the imported data; and (d) analyzing the aggregated data to determine resources consumed.