1. A system for monitoring activity of heterogeneous components of a business application, the system comprising: a local event infrastructure within each of the heterogeneous components, the local event infrastructure comprising an event manager to detect one or more events of the business application, and an event filter to filter the one or more events detected by the event manager; a messaging platform to transmit messages indicative of filtered events from the local event infrastructure to a user interface of a central monitoring system; and a process log displayed in the user interface to generate and display a log of the one or more events.