Collecting network traffic, ØMQ and packetbeat
As part of running infrastructure it might make sense or be required to store logs of transactions. A good way might be to capture the raw unmodified network traffic. For our GSM backend this is what we (have) to do and I wrote a client that is using libpcap to capture data and sends it to a central server for storing the trace. The system is rather simple and in production at various customers. The benefit of having a central server…