Managing game metrics and authorizations

A system for monitoring a client device in a gaming network, the system comprising:

• a plurality of computing devices associated with the gaming network, the computing devices including one or more client devices participating in a network game session;
• and
• a server that includes instructions stored in memory, the instructions being executed by a processor to:
• evaluate the plurality of computing devices associated with the gaming network to identify one or more of the computing devices having idle processing resources,
• assign the one or more identified computing devices monitoring responsibility over the one or more client devices participating within the network game session,
• wherein the one or more assigned computing devices monitor current network traffic associated with the gaming network and modify performance of the monitoring responsibility based on the current network traffic, wherein the performance of the monitoring responsibility is delayed when the current network traffic is identified as high.

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for monitoring a gaming network, the method comprising:

• evaluating a plurality of computing devices associated with the gaming network to identify one or more of the computing devices having idle processing resources;
• assigning the one or more identified computing devices monitoring responsibility over one or more client devices participating within a network game session;
• monitoring current network traffic associated with the gaming network;
• and
• modifying performance of the monitoring responsibility by the one or more assigned computing devices based on the current network traffic, wherein the performance of the monitoring responsibility is delayed when the current network traffic is identified as high.