1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; and a manager residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the manager comprising a state streaming mechanism that initializes a first plurality of streams on a plurality of virtual machines coupled to the apparatus, the first plurality of streams comprising state data for the plurality of virtual machines, wherein the state streaming mechanism initializes a second plurality of streams on a plurality of host computer systems coupled to the apparatus, the second plurality of streams comprising state data for the plurality of host computer systems, the state streaming mechanism creating a plurality of operators to operate on at least one stream in the first and second plurality of streams, wherein the state data comprises network packets, representation state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) calls and responses, logs, task management resources, user accounts, and expiration policies.