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
Top Applications by Usage report
Figure 8-33: Top Applications by Usage—Total Volume
Top Applications by Usage—Total Volume
Figure 8-34: Top Applications by Usage—Download Volume
Top Applications by Usage—Download Volume
Figure 8-35: Top Applications by Usage—Upload Volume
Top Applications by Usage—Upload Volume