Patent attributes
Technologies are provided for identifying problems with network monitoring agents. For example, a network monitoring agent that is experiencing network packet loss can be examined to determine if it is degraded. For example, metrics can be obtained that are associated with the network monitoring agent. The obtained metrics can then be evaluated against thresholds. For example, if a high confidence metric is outside of a threshold for the high confidence metric, then a determination can be made that the network monitoring agent is degraded. As another example, if two low confidence metrics are outside of respective thresholds, then a determination can be made that the network monitoring agent is degraded. If a network monitoring agent is degraded, then its monitoring data can be discarded.
