1. A method for facilitating the processing of network data, comprising: identifying one or more events matching one or more specified parameters, the one or more events identified from time-series event data generated from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents of a plurality of remote capture agents distributed across a network; and in response to identifying the one or more events, sending configuration information to the one or more remote capture agents, the configuration information used by the one or more remote capture agents to generate additional time-series event data from network packets to be captured by the one or more remote capture agents.