Methods and computer program products for analysis of network traffic by port level and/or protocol level filtering in a network device

摘要

Provided are methods and computer program products for monitoring the contents of network traffic in a network device and identifying and analyzing transactional network traffic. Methods of collecting network traffic data for transactional traffic may include application of port level filtering and/or protocol level filtering. The filtering methods described herein may assist the operator in identifying transactional and infrastructure problems resulting in application performance degradation.

主权项

1. A method of analyzing network traffic comprising:
determining a network connected process that is running, wherein the network connected process is associated with network element metrics; receiving input associated with configuration information related to the network connected process; identifying, based on the configuration information, a filtering criterion that corresponds to a network traffic type; filtering the network element metrics based on the filtering criterion to establish a filtered network element metric subset; and collecting network traffic data associated with the filtered network element metric subset, thereby reducing the network traffic data being collected to a subset of total network traffic data, and wherein at least one of determining that the network connected process is running, identifying the filtering criterion, generating the filtered network element metric subset, and collecting the network traffic data is performed using at least one processor.