Systems and methods for monitoring network traffic

A network traffic monitoring system, comprising:

• a server computers programmed to perform operations including:
• receiving one or more data packets originated from a first remote computer system, the data packets having a destination of a second remote computer system;
• determining a user of the first remote computer system and, based thereon, identifying one or more of network traffic monitoring tools configured to connect to the server computer through respective distinct network addresses;
• determining a routing path for the packets, the routing path comprising a sequence of network addresses including the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools and a second network address corresponding to the second remote computer system, the second network address being ordered after the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools in the sequence;
• and
• sending, according to the routing path, the packets to the identified network traffic monitoring tools and the second remote computer system.

A computer storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by data processing apparatus of a server computer, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations including:

• receiving one or more data packets originated from a first remote computer system, the data packets having a destination of a second remote computer system;
• determining a user of the first remote computer system and, based thereon, identifying one or more of network traffic monitoring tools configured to connect to the server computer through respective distinct network addresses;
• determining a routing path for the packets, the routing path comprising a sequence of network addresses including the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools and a second network address corresponding to the second remote computer system, the second network address being ordered after the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools in the sequence;
• and
• sending, according to the routing path, the packets to the identified network traffic monitoring tools and the second remote computer system.