Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates system and method to support correlating captured network traffic going through a network appliance with its metadata for troubleshooting and debugging of the network traffic. First, network traffic in the form of data packets are captured and filtered for metadata based on user-specified parameters. A correlation is then established between the captured data packets and the metadata in a chronologically correct fashion. The metadata is then integrated and stored with the captured network packets in a correlated network traffic database in a standard storage format, which can later be retrieved for visualization, debugging and tracing of program flows and other data with respect to the network traffic through the network appliance.