An entry in cMTCommonMetricStatsTable represents common media monitor profile information of a hop on the path associated to a Mediatrace session such as flow sampling time stamp, packets dropped, IP TTL, etc. The devices creates a row in the cMTCommonMetricStatsTable when a Mediatrace session starts collecting a traffic metrics data and has been configured to compute common IP metrics. Likewise, the device destroys a row in the cMTCommonMetricStatsTable when the corresponding Mediatrace session has ceased collecting the traffic metrics data (e.g., when a scheduled session has timed out). A single row corresponds to a common media monitor profile information of a hop on the path discovered for a session and is uniquely identified by cMTSessionNumber, cMTSessionLifeNumber, cMTBucketNumber,cMTHopStatsAddrType and cMTHopStatsAddr. The created rows are destroyed when the device undergoes a restart.