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Techniques for using trace with tunnels and cloud-based systems for determining measures of network performance are presented. Systems and methods include obtaining policy information related to a trace; performing a plurality of traces, from a start point to an end point in a network, using the different protocols based on the policy information; evaluating which of the plurality of traces reach the end point, and evaluating any of average latency of the plurality of traces, average loss of the plurality of traces, and a number of hops found, for each of the plurality of traces that reach the end point; and selecting a protocol of the different protocols to use for the trace based on the evaluating. The different protocols include Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
