Monitor your Site Networking

Dashboard Time Period

The dashboard contents are dependent on the settings in the right-justified, top bar of options.

• The time drop-down allows you to specify the time period for the data shown, including both quick-pick options like Last 24 hours and the ability to specify a custom time period. Custom time periods are limited to 24 hours within the last 30 days.
• Click the Refresh button next to the time drop-downs to update the contents of the dashboard manually.

Health and Alerts

Each health or alerts section shows a donut chart for a specific metric. The number at the center of the donut indicates the total count for the time period. The donut chart will show different colors representing subcategories of the metric, which correspond to the colored check boxes below the donut. Click a checkbox to add or remove that subcategory from the donut. You can hover over a donut to see the actual quantities of the subcategories.

• Site Health shows how many sites are in which health state. Click Site Health to see more site-specific information on the sites page.

• Infrastructure Alerts shows how many and the which kind of alerts you've had during the selected time period. Click Infrastructure Alerts to see the alerts you've received.

• Link Health shows the how many links are up vs. down. Use the RE↔CE drop-down menu to see links between regional edges and customer edges or links between only customer edges. Click Link Health to see a list of your links with more information for each.

Top 10s

The next row of data sections shows your most active sites, apps, and links.

• Top 10 Sites ranks your sites by data sent or received. Use the Data Sent/Received drop-down menu to choose between sent and received. Lick a site name to see the site dashboard for that site.
• Top 10 Apps ranks your apps by total traffic.
• Top 10 Links ranks your links by throughput. Click a value in the In | Out column to explore the performance of that link.

The networking topology page shows a list of all mesh configurations and/or DC cluster groups.

• Use the Search field and/or the All drop-down menu to narrow down the list.

• Click on a mesh or DC cluster group name to see the site mesh group or DC cluster group for that name. The example below shows a mesh, but a DC cluster group looks and acts similarly.

  

  • This graph shows a number of nodes with lines between them. The nodes represent sites or groups of sites, and the lines represent the links between the nodes. Nodes with a number in a green circle represent that number of sites. Nodes with three vertical dots in a gray circle represent a regional edge (RE). Thick lines represent a group of links, and thin lines represent a single link. Red lines indicate that one or more of the links is down.
  • Hover over a node in the graph to see summary information for that node.
  • Click on a numbered node to see the internal connectivity for that node.
  • Click on a RE node to go to the RE (PoP) Connectivity tab on the Sites page showing that RE and it's connections.
  • Hover over a thick line between nodes to see the number of links represented by that line.
  • Hover over a thin line to see the REs it connects and the status of the connection.
  • Click on a line between nodes to see the link group and each links status.

• The graph below shows a DC Cluster group, similar to the mesh group above. In general, the actions discussed above work for this graph as well. Click on a node to see the right sliding pane showing detail and health for the site, as shown below.

  

  • The Detail tab displays details for the site: current status, labels, connectivity, version information, and throughput.
  • The Health tab displays more health related details.
  • The Infra-Details tab displays details for the site's environment.

The top of the dashboard has a group of donut charts giving you clear picture of alerts, interface status, and the health of your dana and control planes. The donut is a percentage view of each of the categories shown next to the colored checkboxes. The colors in the donut graphic correspond to the categories in the section. The number within the donut provides the 100% count. The category counts are to the right of the checkboxes. The following actions are available in the donut chart sections:

• Click on an underlined title, like Infrastructure Alerts, to get more details on that topic. The Alerts links will take you to the alerts page with a list of the individual alerts with. The Interface Status link will take you to the Interfaces tab to see a list of your interfaces. In both cases, the lists will provide more detail available.
• Click a colored checkbox to show or hide that category in the donut graph.

Below the donut charts are the Top 10 Links graphics providing a sorted list of the topic links by category. The following actions are available in the Top 10 sections:

• Click on an underlined title, like Top 10 Links (by Throughput), to see all of the links sorted by that category in the Links tab.
• Click on a value in the In | Out column to see that value for that specific link shown in the Metrics tab.

The Links tab shows a list of the links between edge sites. Below are the actions available on the links tab:

• Use the selector above the table to choose between viewing RE ↔ CE (Regional Edge linked to Customer Edge) and CE ↔ CE (links between two Customer Edges).
• Use the Add Filter option to narrow down what you see based on the link name or the connection status.
• Enter a string in the Search field to only show links with that text in the table row.
• Click on a column name to sort by that column's values. Click the same name again to reverse the sort.
• Click on an entry in the Link Name column to see the trend for that specific link in the Metrics tab.

The Links tab shows a list of your interfaces. Below are the actions available on the links tab:

• Use the Add Filter option to narrow down what you see based on the interface name, the site name, or the active status.
• Enter a string in the Search field to only show links with that text in the table row.
• Click on a column name to sort by that column's values. Click the same name again to reverse the sort.
• Click on an entry in the Interface Name column to see the trend for that interface.
• Click on an underlined value one of the throughput or drop rate columns to see the trend for that metric.

• The Metrics tab allows you to look a metrics for an individual site. Use the sites drop-down menu to select which site you want to view.

• The right scrolling area lists the metrics you can view in the bar graph on the left. The y-axis will be the metric you choose, meaning the height of a bar is the value for that time period, and the x-axis will be the time period you select in the time drop-down menu above the graph.

• Use the time drop-down menu above the graph to selecting a time interval. You can choose a standard interval from the list, or you can specify a custom interval by selecting the Custom option and choosing date range. However, metric data is only stored for the last 30 days, so your date range is limited to that time period.

• You can narrow down your time interval by dragging the gray bars below the time axis be set graphically by adjusting the controls beneath the main graph.

• Hover over a bar in the graph to see the value and time specifics for that bar.

• A metric category may have more than one metric to view, for instance the Throughput category has two metrics: In Throughput and Out Throughput. You can view one or two metrics in the bar graph. To choose a metric, hover over the metric, and select the blue bar chart icon to the left. If you want to choose a second from that category, hover over the second metric and select the purple bar chart icon.

The metrics available are as follows:

• Throughput

  • In Throughput
  • Out Throughput

• Packets per second

  • In Drop Rate
  • Out Drop Rate

• Count

  • Deployment Count
  • Pod Count

• Percent

  • Data Plane Reachability

• Status

  • Data Plane Status
  • Control Plane Status
  • Local Control Plane Status