Top Applications by Usage report

Top Applications by Usage report overview

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