Ericsson ZTE Corporation ZTE Corporation Futurewei Technologies Independent The development and advancements in network operation automation have brought new measurement methodology requirements. Among them is the ability to collect instant network operational state as the packet being processed by the networking elements along its path through the domain. That task can be solved using on-path telemetry, also called hybrid measurement. An on-path telemetry method allows the collection of essential information that reflects the operational state and network performance experienced by the packet. This document introduces a method complementary to on-path telemetry that causes the generation of network telemetry information. This method, referred to as Hybrid Two-Step (HTS), separates the act of measuring and/or calculating the performance metric from collecting and transporting network operational state. The HTS packet traverses the same set of nodes and links as the trigger packet, thus simplifying the correlation of informational elements originating on nodes traversed by the trigger packet.