Monitoring - KPI Utilization

the monitoring kpi utilization page provides data visualizations that help users understand kpis associated with network devices the page also includes a quick filter feature that enables users to narrow results without creating complex queries filter parameters the following filter parameters are available \ filter parameter \ \ description \ customer name filter devices owned by specific customers gsma code filter devices associated with a specific gsma code data source filter by any supported data source used to monitor network devices and operating systems node name filter by node name device type filter by device type interface name filter by a supported interface filter options each parameter mentioned above supports the following boolean options \ option \ \ description \ include limit results to include the selected values exclude limit results to exclude the selected values visualization display options hover over the upper right corner of a visualization to display the options menu (ellipsis icon) the following display options are supported \ option \ \ description \ settings apply a custom time range or configure additional visualization options inspect download a report maximize expand the visualization to display additional information select the control again to restore the visualization to its original size data visualizations kpi summary the kpi summary section includes the following visualizations \ kpi name \ \ description \ nodes down number of solarwinds nodes that were down during the selected period hardware failure number of devices reporting a critical hardware status bgp down number of devices reporting an idle state, indicating a bgp (border gateway protocol) failure that prevents communication with peers tunnel down number of tunnels that were down out of the total monitored tunnels inerrors number of input errors reported on devices outerrors number of output errors reported on devices indiscards number of inbound packets discarded by devices outdiscards number of outbound packets discarded by devices cpu and memory utilization this section is classified into the following cpu usage cpu usage hosts memory usage memory usage hosts \ utilization type \ \ view \ \ utilization category \ \ number of devices (nodes) \ \ number of associated records \ \ percentage of total devices \ \ description / identifier \ cpu usage distribution less than 70% yes yes yes cpu utilization distribution across devices cpu usage distribution 70%–85% yes yes yes cpu utilization distribution across devices cpu usage distribution greater than 85% yes yes yes cpu utilization distribution across devices cpu usage hosts host level n/a no no no cpu utilization per host, identified by hostname memory usage distribution less than 70% yes yes yes memory utilization distribution across devices memory usage distribution 70%–85% yes yes yes memory utilization distribution across devices memory usage distribution greater than 85% yes yes yes memory utilization distribution across devices memory usage hosts host level n/a no no no memory utilization per host, identified by hostname interface utilization the interface utilization section includes the following \ report / table name \ \ description \ \ metrics included \ \ utilization categories \ tx interface usage table showing outbound interface utilization number of interfaces, number of associated records less than 70% between 70% and 85% greater than 85% tx interface details table providing outbound interface communication details number of interfaces, number of associated records less than 70%, between 70% and 85% greater than 85% solarwinds kpiutilization – tx usage interfaces table providing details about nodes with outbound communications monitored by solarwinds node/interface utilization details not specified solarwinds kpiutilization – rx interfaces table providing inbound interface communication details number of interfaces, number of associated records less than 70%, between 70% and 85% greater than 85% rx usage interfaces table providing details for all nodes engaged in inbound communications inbound communication/interface details not specified kpi utilization the kpi utilization section includes the following visualizations \ kpi name \ \ description \ top nodes – cpu utilization list of nodes ranked in descending order by cpu utilization top nodes – memory utilization list of nodes ranked in descending order by memory utilization top interfaces – tx interface utilization list of interfaces ranked in descending order by outbound communication (transmit traffic) top interfaces – rx interface utilization list of interfaces ranked in descending order by inbound communication (receive traffic) kpi status the kpi status section includes the following categories \ kpi name \ \ description \ top nodes by node down list of all nodes ranked by the number of downtime occurrences in descending order top interfaces by interface down list of all interfaces ranked by the number of downtime occurrences in descending order top nodes by bgp down list of all nodes in an idle state, indicating a bgp (border gateway protocol) failure, ranked by the number of idle occurrences in descending order top nodes by tunnel down list of all tunnels ranked by the number of downtime occurrences in descending order solarwinds kpi utilization – interface in errors list of all interfaces showing the average number of inbound errors interface out errors list of all interfaces showing the average number of outbound errors interface in discards list of all interfaces showing the average number of inbound discards interface out discards list of all interfaces showing the average number of outbound discards cpu usage by hour scatter chart displaying node cpu usage at specific timestamps memory usage scatter chart displaying node memory usage at specific timestamps tx interface usage scatter chart displaying outbound interface communication activity at specific timestamps rx interface usage scatter chart displaying inbound interface communication activity at specific timestamps kpi trends all charts include filters that allow users to show or hide specific data elements for example, on a chart displaying both inbound and outbound interface discards, users can choose to display either metric independently or both together \ visualization / chart title \ \ chart type \ \ metrics tracked \ \ description \ cpu & memory usage trendline cpu utilization, memory utilization displays overall system resource utilization trends over time tx interface & rx interface trendline outbound traffic (tx), inbound traffic (rx) tracks network interface communication volume and bandwidth direction over time solarwinds kpi utilization – interface in & out errors trendline inbound errors, outbound errors monitors physical and logical interface transmission errors over time solarwinds kpi utilization – interface in & out discards trendline inbound discards, outbound discards shows inbound and outbound packet drops across network interfaces over time solarwinds kpi utilization – kpi status – node trendline node down occurrences tracks network device downtime and failure events over time solarwinds kpi utilization – kpi status – interface trendline interface down occurrences displays interface status failures and connection drops over time solarwinds kpi utilization – bgp status trendline idle bgp occurrences tracks bgp protocol failures and peer disconnect occurrences over time solarwinds kpi utilization – tunnel status trendline tunnel downtime monitors vpn and network tunnel outages and downtime events over time refer to the following image for more details on kpi utilization