TECHNOLOGIES FOR SIDEBAND PERFORMANCE TRACING OF NETWORK TRAFFIC

Technologies for tracing network performance include a network computing device configured to receive a network packet from a source endpoint node, process the received network packet, capture trace data corresponding to the network packet as it is processed by the network computing device, and transmit the received network packet to a target endpoint node. The network computing device is further configured to generate a trace data network packet that includes at least a portion of the captured trace data and transmit the trace data network packet to the destination endpoint node. The destination endpoint node is configured to monitor performance of the network by reconstructing a trace of the network packet based on the trace data of the trace data network packet. Other embodiments are described herein.