The Top Application by Usage report shows the router-level distribution of traffic among a top specified number of applications.
Use cases
Application pattern identification—Use the report to determine which applications 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 8-11: Top Applications by Usage report characteristics
Characteristic
Value
Statistics type
AA Accounting per partition application
NSP Flow Collector required
No
Domains
Residential / Wi-Fi (ESM)
Mobile
Wi-Fi (DSM)
Business
Aggregation types
None (raw data)
Hourly
Daily
Monthly
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
Application Group
Rank
Number of items to report
Drill-down support
No
Example
The following figures show a report example.
Figure 8-32: Top Applications by Usage report
Figure 8-33: Top Applications by Usage—Total Volume
Figure 8-34: Top Applications by Usage—Download Volume
Figure 8-35: Top Applications by Usage—Upload Volume
