Innovation Overview
ThousandEyes Traffic Insights provides new assurance capabilities for monitoring and troubleshooting owned network environments with enhanced visibility. Traffic Insights gives network teams a single solution to quickly see and understand how network traffic is impacting the performance of the networks they control.
Feature Highlights
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Traffic Correlation: Live flow data is collected by the ThousandEyes platform and correlated with synthetic test data.
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Top Talkers Visualization: Stacked charts facilitate easy visualization of flow records by application and identify “top talkers.”
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Robust Filtering: The powerful user interface offers filtering by interface, application, location, etc.
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Broad Integration: Traffic Insights seamlessly integrates with ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents, including those running on Cisco networking devices using the Cisco Application Framework (CAF), and ThousandEyes Virtual Appliance (TEVA).
Customer Benefits
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Traffic Alerting: Promptly address traffic spikes using customizable alerts and dashboards.
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Impact Assessment: Quickly and efficiently determine the full impact of network performance degradations.
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Accelerated Root Cause Analysis: Correlate flow data with synthetic test data to quickly triage, determine user impact, and identify root cause.
Follow these quick steps to get familiar with Traffic Insights:
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Navigate to Traffic Insights > Views.
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Select Metrics: Upstream Throughput and view results.
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Select Metrics: Downstream Throughput and view results.
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Select Metrics: Connections per second and view results.
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In Traffic Monitors Locations, select a specific location.
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In Forwarding Agents, select a specific agent.
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In Device, select a specific network device.
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In Interface, select a specific network interface.
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Click Add Filter and select additional filters such as Application, Protocol, or Server Subnet Tag and view results.
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Change Group By from Applications to Conversations and view results.
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Change Group By to Application Path and view results.
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Sort the columns in the table view, for example by Total Throughput.
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