an event management computing platform coupled to a computing hierarchy of multiple nodes;

event processing logic disposed in the event management computing platform, the event processing logic comprising program code enabled to collect events from different ones of the multiple nodes; and,

proximity detection logic comprising program code enabled to correlate different ones of the events of differing attribute sets according to temporal proximity and to determine a causal relationship based upon a frequency of temporally proximate occurrence of the different ones of the events of differing attribute sets.