US Patent 10411985 Network traffic monitoring for virtual machines

A physical host agent receives configuration information from a virtual computer system service specifying network traffic information to be extracted from network traffic for one or more virtual machines. The agent extracts the specified network traffic information from the network traffic for the one or more virtual machines and aggregates the network traffic information into one or more data segments for storage in a repository. A publishing sub-system of the service obtains the one or more data segments and compiles the one or more data segments into data logs for delivery to an analytics service to make the network traffic information available to customers.