def _check_linux(self, instance):
        """
        _check_linux can be run inside a container and still collects the network metrics from the host
        For that procfs_path can be set to something like "/host/proc"
        When a custom procfs_path is set, the collect_connection_state option is ignored
        """
        proc_location = self.agentConfig.get('procfs_path', '/proc').rstrip('/')
        custom_tags = instance.get('tags', [])

        if Platform.is_containerized() and proc_location != "/proc":
            proc_location = "%s/1" % proc_location

        if self._is_collect_cx_state_runnable(proc_location):
            try:
                self.log.debug("Using `ss` to collect connection state")
                # Try using `ss` for increased performance over `netstat`
                for ip_version in ['4', '6']:
                    for protocol in ['tcp', 'udp']:
                        # Call `ss` for each IP version because there's no built-in way of distinguishing
                        # between the IP versions in the output
                        # Also calls `ss` for each protocol, because on some systems (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04), there is a
                        # bug that print `tcp` even if it's `udp`
                        output, _, _ = get_subprocess_output(
                            ["ss", "-n", "-{0}".format(protocol[0]), "-a", "-{0}".format(ip_version)], self.log
                        )
                        lines = output.splitlines()

                        # State      Recv-Q Send-Q     Local Address:Port       Peer Address:Port
                        # UNCONN     0      0              127.0.0.1:8125                  *:*
                        # ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:37036         127.0.0.1:8125
                        # UNCONN     0      0        fe80::a00:27ff:fe1c:3c4:123          :::*
                        # TIME-WAIT  0      0          90.56.111.177:56867        46.105.75.4:143
                        # LISTEN     0      0       ::ffff:127.0.0.1:33217  ::ffff:127.0.0.1:7199
                        # ESTAB      0      0       ::ffff:127.0.0.1:58975  ::ffff:127.0.0.1:2181

                        metrics = self._parse_linux_cx_state(
                            lines[1:], self.tcp_states['ss'], 0, protocol=protocol, ip_version=ip_version
                        )
                        # Only send the metrics which match the loop iteration's ip version
                        for stat, metric in iteritems(self.cx_state_gauge):
                            if stat[0].endswith(ip_version) and stat[0].startswith(protocol):
                                self.gauge(metric, metrics.get(metric), tags=custom_tags)

            except OSError:
                self.log.info("`ss` not found: using `netstat` as a fallback")
                output, _, _ = get_subprocess_output(["netstat", "-n", "-u", "-t", "-a"], self.log)
                lines = output.splitlines()
                # Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
                # Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
                # tcp        0      0 46.105.75.4:80          79.220.227.193:2032     SYN_RECV
                # tcp        0      0 46.105.75.4:143         90.56.111.177:56867     ESTABLISHED
                # tcp        0      0 46.105.75.4:50468       107.20.207.175:443      TIME_WAIT
                # tcp6       0      0 46.105.75.4:80          93.15.237.188:58038     FIN_WAIT2
                # tcp6       0      0 46.105.75.4:80          79.220.227.193:2029     ESTABLISHED
                # udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:123             0.0.0.0:*
                # udp6       0      0 :::41458                :::*

                metrics = self._parse_linux_cx_state(lines[2:], self.tcp_states['netstat'], 5)
                for metric, value in iteritems(metrics):
                    self.gauge(metric, value, tags=custom_tags)
            except SubprocessOutputEmptyError:
                self.log.exception("Error collecting connection stats.")

        proc_dev_path = "{}/net/dev".format(proc_location)
        with open(proc_dev_path, 'r') as proc:
            lines = proc.readlines()
        # Inter-|   Receive                                                 |  Transmit
        #  face |bytes     packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes       packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed # noqa: E501
        #     lo:45890956   112797   0    0    0     0          0         0    45890956   112797    0    0    0     0       0          0 # noqa: E501
        #   eth0:631947052 1042233   0   19    0   184          0      1206  1208625538  1320529    0    0    0     0       0          0 # noqa: E501
        #   eth1:       0        0   0    0    0     0          0         0           0        0    0    0    0     0       0          0 # noqa: E501
        for l in lines[2:]:
            cols = l.split(':', 1)
            x = cols[1].split()
            # Filter inactive interfaces
            if self._parse_value(x[0]) or self._parse_value(x[8]):
                iface = cols[0].strip()
                metrics = {
                    'bytes_rcvd': self._parse_value(x[0]),
                    'bytes_sent': self._parse_value(x[8]),
                    'packets_in.count': self._parse_value(x[1]),
                    'packets_in.error': self._parse_value(x[2]) + self._parse_value(x[3]),
                    'packets_out.count': self._parse_value(x[9]),
                    'packets_out.error': self._parse_value(x[10]) + self._parse_value(x[11]),
                }
                self._submit_devicemetrics(iface, metrics, custom_tags)

        netstat_data = {}
        for f in ['netstat', 'snmp']:
            proc_data_path = "{}/net/{}".format(proc_location, f)
            try:
                with open(proc_data_path, 'r') as netstat:
                    while True:
                        n_header = netstat.readline()
                        if not n_header:
                            break  # No more? Abort!
                        n_data = netstat.readline()

                        h_parts = n_header.strip().split(' ')
                        h_values = n_data.strip().split(' ')
                        ns_category = h_parts[0][:-1]
                        netstat_data[ns_category] = {}
                        # Turn the data into a dictionary
                        for idx, hpart in enumerate(h_parts[1:]):
                            netstat_data[ns_category][hpart] = h_values[idx + 1]
            except IOError:
                # On Openshift, /proc/net/snmp is only readable by root
                self.log.debug("Unable to read %s.", proc_data_path)

        nstat_metrics_names = {
            'Tcp': {
                'RetransSegs': 'system.net.tcp.retrans_segs',
                'InSegs': 'system.net.tcp.in_segs',
                'OutSegs': 'system.net.tcp.out_segs',
            },
            'TcpExt': {
                'ListenOverflows': 'system.net.tcp.listen_overflows',
                'ListenDrops': 'system.net.tcp.listen_drops',
                'TCPBacklogDrop': 'system.net.tcp.backlog_drops',
                'TCPRetransFail': 'system.net.tcp.failed_retransmits',
            },
            'Udp': {
                'InDatagrams': 'system.net.udp.in_datagrams',
                'NoPorts': 'system.net.udp.no_ports',
                'InErrors': 'system.net.udp.in_errors',
                'OutDatagrams': 'system.net.udp.out_datagrams',
                'RcvbufErrors': 'system.net.udp.rcv_buf_errors',
                'SndbufErrors': 'system.net.udp.snd_buf_errors',
                'InCsumErrors': 'system.net.udp.in_csum_errors',
            },
        }

        # Skip the first line, as it's junk
        for k in nstat_metrics_names:
            for met in nstat_metrics_names[k]:
                if met in netstat_data.get(k, {}):
                    self._submit_netmetric(
                        nstat_metrics_names[k][met], self._parse_value(netstat_data[k][met]), tags=custom_tags
                    )

        # Get the conntrack -S information
        conntrack_path = instance.get('conntrack_path')
        if conntrack_path is not None:
            self._add_conntrack_stats_metrics(conntrack_path, custom_tags)

        # Get the rest of the metric by reading the files. Metrics available since kernel 3.6
        conntrack_files_location = os.path.join(proc_location, 'sys', 'net', 'netfilter')
        # By default, only max and count are reported. However if the blacklist is set,
        # the whitelist is loosing its default value
        blacklisted_files = instance.get('blacklist_conntrack_metrics')
        whitelisted_files = instance.get('whitelist_conntrack_metrics')
        if blacklisted_files is None and whitelisted_files is None:
            whitelisted_files = ['max', 'count']

        available_files = []

        # Get the metrics to read
        try:
            for metric_file in os.listdir(conntrack_files_location):
                if (
                    os.path.isfile(os.path.join(conntrack_files_location, metric_file))
                    and 'nf_conntrack_' in metric_file
                ):
                    available_files.append(metric_file[len('nf_conntrack_') :])
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.debug("Unable to list the files in {}. {}".format(conntrack_files_location, e))

        filtered_available_files = pattern_filter(
            available_files, whitelist=whitelisted_files, blacklist=blacklisted_files
        )

        for metric_name in filtered_available_files:
            metric_file_location = os.path.join(conntrack_files_location, 'nf_conntrack_{}'.format(metric_name))
            try:
                with open(metric_file_location, 'r') as conntrack_file:
                    # Checking it's an integer
                    try:
                        value = int(conntrack_file.read().rstrip())
                        self.gauge('system.net.conntrack.{}'.format(metric_name), value, tags=custom_tags)
                    except ValueError:
                        self.log.debug("{} is not an integer".format(metric_name))
            except IOError as e:
                self.log.debug("Unable to read {}, skipping {}.".format(metric_file_location, e))
_check_linux can be run inside a container and still collects the network metrics from the host
        For that procfs_path can be set to something like "/host/proc"
        When a custom procfs_path is set, the collect_connection_state option is ignored