1. A method performed by a remote capture agent coupled to a network, the method comprising: monitoring network traffic comprising a plurality of network packets on the network; identifying a packet flow including at least one network packet from the plurality of network packets, wherein the packet flow is associated with a communication path between a source and a destination; identifying a protocol associated with the packet flow; generating, based on configuration information associated with the identified protocol, an event stream from the packet flow, wherein the event stream comprises time-series event data created based on data contained in network packets of the packet flow; and transmitting the event stream to another component on the network.