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.