Cricket is a high performance, extremely flexible system for monitoring trends in time series data. Cricket was expressly developed to help network managers visualize and understand the traffic on their networks, but it can be used for all kinds of other jobs as well.

Network operators require awareness of how well their network performs. Every node in the network keeps statistics on many attributes that affect its performance. The operators would like to constantly monitor these attributes over time and keep track of their intensity. The tool can be used by anyone who wants to monitor and plot value variations of network attributes inside their management domain. Example implementation in 6NET:

http://6net.iif.hu/cricket/grapher.cgi (HUNGARNET)