Techniques for accelerated Time series analysis (TSA) in a network are described. Packets from a first network flow at a network element, such as a switch or a router, are trapped using a hardware based TSA engine at the network element. The packets are then reduced into TSA tuples including TSA data points and stored into memory. A software based TSA module performs one or more TSA actions on the stored tuples, where the TSA actions produce analysis results used to determine network performance for the network and network based applications.