For those Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) that can ingest metadata, using network traffic metadata instead of raw packets, enables far lower volumes of traffic to be sent to SIEM tools such as Splunk and IBM QRadar and NPM tools such as Riverbed. Gigamon generates full-fidelity, unsampled NetFlow and removes the burden from routers and switches. This typically results in a 95 percent reduction in the amount of traffic sent to tools that use NetFlow.