1. A method comprising: providing a plurality of monitoring agents to monitor an application capable of executing on a plurality of computing nodes; receiving from one or more monitoring agents information identifying one or more computing nodes which are participating in executing the application; displaying on an electronic screen a map comprising an icon for each of the one or more computing nodes participating in executing the application; after the displaying on an electronic screen a map, determining that a first computing node of the one or more computing nodes is no longer participating in executing the application; updating the map to indicate that the first computing node is no longer participating in executing the application; and displaying the updated map on the electronic screen.