The invention discloses a method and a system to monitor a network flow rate abnormality, and solves the problem that the prior exchanger image technology is adopted to monitor the flow rate abnormality to cause the problems such as exchanger performance loss, data package lose, etc. The method comprises the steps that: first of all, the flow rate abnormality port in the exchanger is positioned through a coarse granularity monitoring way, then the image port of the exchanger is automatically adjusted, and the abnormality port flow rate is copied to the image port, finally, a fine granularity monitoring way is adopted to analyze the image port flow rate to get the flow rate abnormality reason. The invention improves the traditional exchanger image technology, only when the flow rate is abnormal, the exchanger image is triggered, the exchanger image function is not used within most of the time, so the load is not increased to influence the exchanger function; in addition, the image port is adjusted through the way which is dynamic and has an aim, thereby avoiding the circumstance that a plurality of ports are imaged to one port to cause the package to be lost.