Virtual Inventory Statistics and Cloud Applications Dashboard

Analytics dashboards allow users to monitor the physical and virtual environment and detect anomalous behavior and plan accordingly. In case of virtual environment, Analytics support is available for the following cloud platforms:

  • AWS
  • OpenStack
  • VMware ESXi
  • Azure

To access the dashboards:

  1. Go to -> Analytics > Dashboards.
  2. Click on the required dashboard to view the visualizations.

The following table lists the various virtual dashboards:

Dashboard

 Displays Visualizations Displays

Inventory Status (Virtual)

 

Statistical details of the virtual inventory
based on the platform and the health status.

You can view the following metric details at the top of the dashboard:

● Number of Monitoring Sessions
● Number of V Series Nodes
● Number of Connections
● Number of GCB Nodes

You can filter the visualizations based on the following control filters:

  • Platform
  • Health Status

V Series Node Status by Platform

Number of healthy and unhealthy V Series Nodes for each of the supported cloud platforms.

 

 
Monitoring Session Status by Platform Number of healthy and unhealthy monitoring sessions for each of the supported cloud platforms
Connection Status by Platform Number of healthy and unhealthy connections for each of the supported cloud platforms
GCB Node Status by Platform Number of healthy and unhealthy GCB nodes for each of the supported cloud platforms
V Series Node Statistics

Displays the Statistics of the V Series node such as the CPU usage, trend of the receiving and transmitting packets of the V Series node.

You can filter the visualizations based on the following control filters:

  • Platform
  • Connection
  • V Series Node

 

 V Series Node Maximum CPU Usage Trend

Line chart that displays maximum CPU usage trend of the V Series node in 5 minutes interval, for the past one hour.

Note:  The maximum CPU Usage trend refers to the CPU usage for service cores only. Small form factor V Series nodes do not have service cores, therefore the CPU usage is reported as 0.
V Series Node with Most CPU Usage For Past 5 minutes

Line chart that displays Maximum CPU usage of the V Series node for the past 5 minutes.

Note:  You cannot use the time based filter options to filter and visualize the data.
V Series Node Rx Trend Receiving trend of the V Series node in 5 minutes interval, for the past one hour.
V Series Network Interfaces with Most Rx for Past 5 mins

Total packets received by each of the V Series network interface for the past 5 minutes.

Note:  You cannot use the time based filter options to filter and visualize the data.
V Series Node Tunnel Rx Packets/Errors Displays the reception of packet at the Tunnel RX. This is the input to V Series Node, Grouping by tunnel identifier comprising {monDomain, conn, VSN, tunnelName}, before aggregation.
V Series Node Tunnel Tx Packets/Errors TX is for output tunnels from GigaVUE V Series Node. V Series Node Tunnel Tx Packets/Errors
Dedup

Displays visualizations related to Dedupe application.

You can filter the visualizations based on the following control filters:

  • Platform
  • Connection
  • V Series Node
 Dedupe Packets Detected/Dedupe Packets Overload Statistics of the total deduplicated packets received (ipV4Dup, ipV6Dup and nonIPDup) against the de-duplication application overload.
Dedupe Packets Detected/Dedupe Packets Overload Percentage Percentage of the de-duplicated packets received against the de-duplication application overload.
Total Traffic In/Out Dedupe Total incoming traffic against total outgoing traffic
   
Tunnel (Virtual)

Displays visualizations related to the tunneled traffic in both bytes as well as the number of packets.

You can select the following control filters, based on which the visualizations will get updated:

  • Monitoring session: Select the required monitoring session. The cloud platform, monitoring domain and connection within the monitoring domain that is used by the V Series node are shown in square brackets, comma-separated, after the name, to distinguish the whole path to it.
  • V Series node: Management IP of the V Series node. Choose the required V Series node from the drop-down.
  • Tunnel: Select any of the tunnels shown in the Tunnel drop-down. The direction for each tunnel is shown with the prefix in or out.

The following statistics are displayed for the tunnel:

  • Received Bytes
  • Transmitted Bytes
  • Received Packets
  • Transmitted Packets
  • Received Errored Packets
  • Received Dropped Packets
  • Transmitted Errored Packets
  • Transmitted Dropped Packets
Tunnel Bytes

Displays received tunnel traffic vs transmitted tunnel traffic, in bytes.

  • For input tunnel, transmitted traffic is displayed as zero.
  • For output tunnel, received traffic is displayed as zero.
Tunnel Packets Displays packet-level statistics for input and output tunnels that are part of a monitoring session.
App (Virtual)

Displays Byte and packet level statistics for the applications for the chosen monitoring session on the selected V Series node.

You can select the following control filters, based on which the visualizations will get updated:

  • Monitoring session
  • V Series node
  • Application: Select the required application. By default, the visualizations displayed includes all the applications.

By default, the following statistics are displayed:

  • Received Bytes
  • Transmitted Bytes
  • Received Packets
  • Transmitted Packets
  • Errored Packets
  • Dropped Packets
App Bytes Displays received traffic vs transmitted traffic, in Bytes.

App Packets

 

 Displays received traffic vs transmitted traffic, as the number of packets.
End Point (Virtual)

Displays Byte and packet level statistics for the un-tunneled traffic deployed on the V Series nodes.

The following statistics that are shown for Endpoint (Virtual):

  • Received Bytes
  • Transmitted Bytes
  • Received Packets
  • Transmitted Packets
  • Received Errored Packets
  • Received Dropped Packets
  • Transmitted Errored Packets
  • Transmitted Dropped Packets

The endpoint drop-down shows <V-Series Node Management IP address : Network Interface> for each endpoint.

You can select the following control filters, based on which the visualizations will get updated:

  • Monitoring session
  • V Series node
  • Endpoint: Management IP of the V Series node followed by the Network Interface (NIC)
 Endpoint Bytes Displays received traffic vs transmitted traffic, in Bytes.
Endpoint Packets Displays received traffic versus transmitted traffic, as the number of packets.

Note:  The Tunnel (Virtual), App (Virtual) and Endpoint (Virtual) dashboards do not show data from the previous releases if the Monitoring Session [Platform : Domain : Connection] dashboard filter is applied. This is because, this filter relies on the new attributes in the Elasticsearch database, which are available only from software version 5.14.00 and beyond.

Rules and Notes

  • You cannot edit or delete these default dashboards. However, you can clone the dashboards and visualizations. Refer to the Clone Dashboard section for more details.
  • Use the Time Filter option to select the required time interval for which you need to view the visualization.
  • Refer to the Analytics section for details on how to create a new dashboard, clone a dashboard, create a new visualization, and other information about the Discover page and Reports page.