What is perfSONAR?

perfSONAR stands for performance Service Oriented Network monitoring Architecture.

The perfSONAR project is carried out by a consortium of organisations (GEANT 2, ESnet, Internet 2 and RNP) and aims to design and build network performance middleware (the perfSONAR web services) and visualisation tools that assists the analysis of local or remote interconnected network domains. One of the project’s main goals is to make it easier to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing several networks.