1. A computer implemented method for computing path oriented statistics, the computer implemented method comprising: determining a transaction path for each transaction in a plurality of transactions to be processed; determining combined transaction paths; monitoring a statistic from all components in the combined transaction paths, wherein the statistic is a statistic that is to be transformed into a plurality of composite statistics; calculating a composite statistic for each component at each hop; and combining the composite statistics for each component of the combined transaction path to form an overall composite statistic for the combined transaction path.