A web-based contact center state engine provides data describing the state of the contact center system and actionable intelligence including key performance indicators. The contact center state engine may be utilized in conjunction with the network monitoring appliance which processes and manages exceptions to the call center data allowing for action, exceptions and escalation, thereby alerting an organization to an issue and providing recommended actions in addition to post event forensic data.

A contact center request is received from a user device. Respective agent routing scores for the available agents are determined based on respective environmental scores and respective network connection scores associated with available agents. An agent is selected from the available agents based on the respective agent routing scores. The contact center request is routed to an agent device of the agent. A network connection score for an agent can be determined by obtaining from a network monitoring tool available at the agent device network related metrics, which include at least one of a packet loss metric, a jitter metric, a throughput metric, or a latency metric. The network related metrics are combined to obtain a score that in a range of 0 to a maximum network-related score.