Incoming Interface Utilization

This workspace report displays a graph of the selected interface's incoming traffic as a percentage of available bandwidth for the chosen time period.

Tip: If you experience an unusually low interface utilization, this could be because you have Flow Monitor collecting on a router which is not the network bottleneck. Changing the interface speed on the Flow Sources dialog will give a more accurate reading of its utilization.

Note: sFlow data is sent every x number of packets (configurable on the sFlow device), whereas typically all NetFlow data is collected and monitored. This means that sFlow data provides a sampling of network traffic data, whereas Flow data provides all network traffic data.
sFlow data sampling methods may result in Interface Overview and Interface Detail reports that appear to have more or less traffic than is shown in the Flow Monitor Home page source information. This is because the sampled data shown in the Interface Overview and Interface Detail reports are derived the sampled data and the Flow Monitor Home page source information is derived from the total interface traffic data.

Note: If you use the Report Zoom tool buttons at the top of this workspace report, each workspace report in the Interface Overview report changes date.

Incoming Interface Utilization

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