1. A method of monitoring an application running on a server, the method comprising: maintaining a counter for each of one or more first operational statistics for one or more components of the application; collecting the one or more first operational statistic represented by the counters; updating a first aggregation of each of the one or more first operational statistics for each of the one or more components of the application based on the first operational statistics represented by the counters; and storing the first aggregation for access by a statistical presentation agent.