Application Usage report

Application Usage report overview

The Application Usage report shows the pattern of usage for a selected application group for a specified reporting period.

Use cases

Capacity planning—Use the report to examine traffic growth and identify usage patterns for planning future capacity requirements.

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 3-11: Application Usage report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Statistics type

AA accounting business application

NSP Flow Collector required

No

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

End date

Calendar date or relative date (for example, two days ago) and time

Report range

Length of time to be reported, in minutes, hours, days, or months

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Monthly

  • Daily

Days of week

Select individual days or click Select All.

Hours of day

Select individual hours or click Select All.

Customer

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

At least one Customer or Service Name must be entered.

Service Name (or Name Pattern)

Service

Node

Business Subscriber

Application

Select individual applications or click Select All.

Drill-down support

No

Example

The following figures show a report example.

Figure 3-20: Application Usage report - total volume
Application Usage report - total volume
Figure 3-21: Application Usage report - download volume
Application Usage report - download volume
Figure 3-22: Application Usage report - upload volume
Application Usage report - upload volume