Methods and systems are provided for automatically capturing network data for a detected anomaly. In some examples, a network node establishes a baseline usage by applying at least one baselining rule to network traffic to generate baseline statistics, detects an anomaly usage by applying at least one anomaly rule to network traffic and generating an anomaly event, and captures network data according to an anomaly event by triggering at least one capturing rule to be applied to network traffic when an associated anomaly event is generated.