Monitoring for congestion issues

Scenario

A user calls in reporting that everything on the network is taking an excessive amount of time to load, indicating network congestion.

Workflow

• Navigate to Explore -> Exporters -> Interfaces

• Identify instantly if any interfaces are congested

• Open a “Conversations” Report to see the top source and destinations of bandwidth

• We may find that a host on the network is performing write intensive backups during the day and eating up all available bandwidth.

Tip

If Host Indexing is turned on, you can look up a user’s IP and see all network devices that saw that address.

Note

Plixer Scrutinizer records highwater marks that represent the peak utilization (based on the configured interface speed) for each interface.