US Patent 11546240 Proactively detecting failure points in a network

Techniques for using traceroute with tunnels and cloud-based systems for determining measures of network performance are presented. Systems and methods include periodically performing a full trace, at a first interval, to a destination; periodically performing a short trace, at a second interval that is less than the first interval, to a node in a cloud-based system; responsive to detection of issues based on the short trace, performing a full trace to the destination; and providing results of any of the full trace, the short trace, and any associated issues detected based thereon.