Alert dashboard system with situation room

A user interface system has at least a first engine configured to receive message data from managed infrastructure that includes managed infrastructure physical hardware which supports the flow and processing of information. The at least first engine determines common characteristics of events and produces clusters of events relating to the failure of errors in the managed infrastructure. Membership in a cluster indicates a common factor of the events that is a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information. One or more situations are created that is a collection of one or more events or alerts representative of the actionable problem in the managed infrastructure. A display computer system generates a dashboard display that includes situations from clustered messages received from managed infrastructure. The display computer system is coupled to or included in a situation room coupled to the at least first engines.