The NetSage Measurement Framework: Design, Development, and Discoveries

Data sharing to support research collaborations has increased exponentially in the last ten years, but effective data transfer performance continues to be hard to achieve. The NetSage Measurement and Analysis framework was developed to support understanding research data movement by collecting a broad set of monitoring data from various resources, and visualizing that data using performance Dashboards which are specifically designed to address the analysis needs of stakeholders. This paper describes the design methodology, the resulting architecture, development, and deployment approach, and a set of discoveries that NetSage Dashboards made possible.