Top Application Groups by Usage report

Top Application Groups by Usage report overview

The Top Application Groups by Usage report shows the router-level distribution of traffic among a top specified number of application groups.

Use cases

Application pattern identification—Use the report to determine which application groups consume disproportionate network resources, and at which times of the day.

Subscriber profiling—Use the report to determine the behavior of a specific set of subscribers.

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 8-10: Top Application Groups by Usage report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Statistics type

AA Accounting per partition application group

NSP Flow Collector required

No

Domains

Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM)

Mobile

Wi-Fi (DSM)

Business

Selectable metrics or counters

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

End date

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

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Daily

  • Monthly

Report range

Length of time to be reported, in minutes (minutes, min), hours (hours, h), days (days, d), weeks (w), or months (months, m)

Node Type

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

Node

Rank

Number of items to report

Drill-down support

Yes—Display the Top Applications by Usage graph of the top applications for the selected application group.

Note: Drilling down from the Others segment opens the Top Applications by Usage report for all applications, not just the ones in the Others category. Drilling down from other groups opens the report for the selected group.

Example

The following figures show a report example.

Figure 8-28: Top Application Groups by Usage report
Top Application Groups by Usage report
Figure 8-29: Top Application Groups by Usage - total volume
Top Application Groups by Usage - total volume
Figure 8-30: Top Application Groups by Usage - download volume
Top Application Groups by Usage - download volume
Figure 8-31: Top Application Groups by Usage - upload volume
Top Application Groups by Usage - upload volume