1. At a computer system, the computer system including a processor and system memory, the computer system configured to present diagnostic data for applications at a graphical interface, the diagnostic data derived from a stream of raw computing activity, the stream of raw computing data generated by a plurality of components during execution of an application, one or more portions of the application emitting diagnostic visualizations during execution of the application, the diagnostic visualizations representing an abstract objective of the application, a method for presenting diagnostic data for the application, the method comprising: an act of displaying one or more diagnostic visualizations emitted during execution of the application, the one or more diagnostic visualizations partially representing the abstract objective of the application; an act of displaying diagnostic data indicating the performance of at least one of the plurality of components during part of the execution of the application; and an act of visually correlating the displayed one or more diagnostic visualizations with the displayed diagnostic data to link the one or more diagnostic visualizations to the at least one of the plurality of components so as to better indicate how the application's behavior reconciles the abstract objective.