Aggregation of select network traffic statistics

Abstract

Disclosed herein are network appliances, methods, computer-readable media, and systems for aggregating network traffic statistics in a communication network. For example, the network appliance is to determine a plurality of network flow strings that are transmitted from the network appliance or received at the network appliance; extract a network metric of the plurality of network flow strings; aggregate values associated with the network metric over the plurality of network flow strings; generate an accumulating map, wherein the accumulating map comprises the values associated with the aggregated network metric; when a new network flow string is received, invoke an eviction policy on the new network flow string, wherein the eviction policy removes at least one of the plurality of network flow strings from the accumulating map; and transmit the accumulating map to a network information collector in communication with the network appliance.