Top Applications by Volume report

Top Applications by Volume report overview

The Top Applications by Volume report shows the top application groups by volume for a selected customer, service or business subscriber.

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 3-13: Top Applications by Volume report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Statistics type

AA accounting business application

NSP Flow Collector required

No

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

Report range

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

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Monthly

  • Daily

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 Group

Select individual application groups or click Select All.

Rank

Number of applications to report

Drill-down support

Yes—Open Application Usage Report for the selected application group.

Note: Drilling down from the Others segment opens the Application Group Usage Report for all application groups, 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 3-27: Top Application Usage
Top Application Usage
Figure 3-28: Top Applications—Total Volume (GB)
Top Applications—Total Volume (GB)
Figure 3-29: Top Applications—Download Volume (GB)
Top Applications—Download Volume (GB)
Figure 3-30: Top Applications—Upload Volume (GB)
Top Applications—Upload Volume (GB)