This article describes Cato's Network Analytics report that highlights data related to network usage for sites and SDP users in your account.
Cato provides a Predefined Report template that summarizes WAN and Internet network usage for sites and SDP users. In addition, it includes the SLA metrics for site traffic: packet loss, discarded packets, jitter, and latency. Create the template for the Predefined Report with the sites and SDP users that are included in the report over the defined time range. Then you can generate a report for the defined time range and download it as a PDF that you can easily share in your organization.
By default, the Predefined Report template for the Network Analytics reports shows traffic and data for all sites and SDP users for the past week. You can filter the template to only show specific sites or SDP users in the report. In addition, you can customize the time range for the report.
For more about working with Predefined Reports, see Cato Reports.
To create a Predefined Report for Network Analytics:
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From the navigation pane, select Monitoring > Reports.
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From the Predefined Reports tab, click New. The Create Report panel opens.
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Enter the Report Name for the Predefined Report.
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In Type, select Network Analytics Report.
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(Optional) In Filters, select specific sites or SDP users for the Predefined Report.
By default, the Predefined Report includes all sites and SDP users.
To include multiple sites or SDP users in the report, use the IN operator.
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Select the Time Range of the report.
For a Custom range, select start date (From) and the end date (To) for the Predefined Report.
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Click Save. The report template is added to the Predefined Reports tab.
You can also click Save & Generate, and then the report is generated and you can download it from the Generated Reports tab.
For more about generating reports, see Cato Reports.
For sections in the report that show the top sites, charts that show over time show the top three sites, other charts show the top ten sites.
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Latency measures round trip time inside the tunnel between the site and the PoP in the Cato Cloud
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Jitter is the difference in time delay in milliseconds (ms) between data packets
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Packets discarded is the number of packets discarded by the QoS engine due to congestion
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Packets lost is the number or percentage of dropped packets inside the tunnel between the site and the PoP in the Cato Cloud
These are the sections in the Network Analytics report:
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Traffic Summary
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Sites Total Traffic: Chart showing volume and percentage of upstream and downstream traffic for all sites
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Sites Total Traffic Over Time: Timeline that shows the total upstream and downstream traffic for all sites over the time range
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SDP Users Total Traffic: Chart showing volume and percentage of upstream and downstream traffic for all SDP users
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SDP Users Total Traffic Over Time: Timeline that shows the total upstream and downstream traffic for all SDP users over the time range
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Top Sites by Traffic Consumption
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Top Sites by Average Latency: Average latency (in ms) for the top sites over the time range
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Top Sites by Max Latency: Maximum latency for the top sites over the time range
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Top Sites by Average Jitter Downstream: Average downstream jitter for the top sites over the time range
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Top Sites by Average Jitter Upstream: Average upstream jitter for the top sites over the time range
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Lost Packets Downstream: Chart showing downstream packet loss (number of lost packets) for all sites over the time range
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Lost Packets Upstream: Chart showing upstream packet loss (number of lost packets) for all sites over the time range
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Lost Packets Downstream %: Chart showing downstream packet loss (percentage) for all sites over the time range
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Lost Packets Upstream %: Chart showing upstream packet loss (percentage) for all sites over the time range
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Total Sites Packet Discard
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Packets Discarded Downstream: Chart showing downstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (number of discarded packets) for all sites over the time range
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Packets Discarded Upstream: Chart showing upstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (number of discarded packets) for all sites over the time range
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Packets Discarded Downstream %: Chart showing downstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (percentage) for all sites over the time range
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Packets Discarded Upstream %: Chart showing upstream discarded packets by the QoS engine (percentage) for all sites over the time range
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Top Sites Dropped Traffic
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Top Sites Packet Loss Over Time: Timeline that shows the total packet loss (number of lost packets) for upstream and downstream traffic for the top three sites over the time range
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Top Sites Packet Discarded Over Time: Timeline that shows the total packets discarded by the QoS engine (number of lost packets) for upstream and downstream traffic for the top three sites over the time range
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Site Traffic Details - The table shows the following details for up to 100 top sites according to the total traffic volume, sorted in alphabetical order:
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Site Name: Name of the site
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Port: Name for the port (defined in the Cato Management Application)
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Bytes Total: Total traffic for the port in this site
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Bytes Upstream: Total upstream traffic for the port in this site
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Bytes Downstream: Total downstream traffic for the port in this site
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Throughput (Max): Maximum throughput for upstream and downstream traffic for the port in this site
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Throughput Downstream (Max): Maximum throughput for downstream traffic for the port in this site
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Throughput Upstream (Max): Maximum throughput for upstream traffic for the port in this site
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Sites SLA Metrics - The table shows the following SLA details for up to 100 top sites according to the total traffic volume, sorted in alphabetical order:
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Site Name: Name of the site
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Interface Name: Name for the interface (defined in the Cato Management Application)
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Latency RTT (avg): Average round trip time (RTT) for the interface in this site
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Jitter Upstream (avg): Average upstream jitter for the interface in this site
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Jitter Downstream (avg): Average downstream jitter for the interface in this site
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Discarded Packets Downstream: Number of packets discarded by the Cato QoS engine for downstream traffic for the interface in this site
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Discarded Packets Upstream: Number of packets discarded by the Cato QoS engine for upstream traffic for the interface in this site
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Lost Packets Downstream: Number of packets lost for downstream traffic for the interface in this site
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Lost Packets Upstream: Number of packets lost for upstream traffic for the interface in this site
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Comments
2 comments
The average latency report seems to include WAN2 last-resort failover links (in our case 4G backup), which skews the results dramatically.
Could we get a graph of bandwidth utilization over time to be added to this report?
This would be helpful for circuit monitoring and tracking utilization.
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