SELECTIVE USER PLANE MONITORING USING A SINGLE NETWORK MONITORING PROBE

A system for selective user plane monitoring includes a network packet broker (NPB) configured to receive a plurality of packets including user plane data from one or more tunnels created to enable direct transmission of the user plane packets from user equipment to a service getaway (SGW). The NPB is also configured to receive a plurality of packets including control plane data from one or more channels created to enable transmission of the control plane packets from a base transceiver station to the SGW. The system further includes a monitoring probe operatively coupled to the NPB. The monitoring probe is configured to generate a first plurality of metrics associated with the received control plane packets and configured to selectively generate a second plurality of metrics associated with the received user plane packets based on one or more identifiers.