Sorted event monitoring by context partition

An event monitoring system that includes two stages, an event sorting stage and an event processing stage. The event sorting stage receives events provided by at least one application, and includes multiple event sorting systems. The event processing stage includes at least one event processing system that processes events forwarded by the event sorting stage. The event processing system(s) is/are capable of processing events that fall within a particular set of one or more context partitions that correspond to the respective event processing system. As the event sorting system receives an event, the event sorting system identifies which context partition the event falls within. The event sorting system then identifies the event processing system that corresponds to the identified context partition of the event, and then forwards the event to the identified event processing system. The event processing system then applies the set of one or more monitoring rules.