The Switch’s insights page provides more granular information about a switch port’s rates, errors, drops, and types of traffic being seen on the port. To view the Switch’s insights page click on Hardware > Switches > (click the desired switch.
The insights page will then be displayed.
The top-right-hand side of the page contains time and port filters. Individual charts can also be filtered by port simply by clicking the port number at the bottom of the chart.
Unfortunately, it is not feasible to send all real-time data to the Dashboard as this would be incredibly resource-intensive. Instead, averages are used depending on your selected time filter. Up to 24 hours, data is represented in 5-minute intervals. The data point will contain the average of the last 5 minutes. After 24 hours the interval increases to 30 minutes. At 30 days, the interval increases to 1 hour. You may notice data appear to change after selecting different time windows as averages will change for different intervals.As an example here is a look at port 7 on a switch, with a 24-hour time filter:
This chart can be read as “between 10:35 and 10:40 AM, the average total received rate was 57mbps”. Let’s now take a look at this same port with a zoomed out 7-day time filter:
Taking a look at the same spike, this is read as “between 10:00 and 10:30 AM the average total received rate was 14mbps”. The rate appears to be much lower since it is now an average of the past 30 minutes, instead of the past 5 minutes.All of the charts on this page use the same type of averaging system. On the Insights page you will find -Total received rate - The rate of data received by a port (downloaded).Total transmitted rate - The rate of data transmitted by a port (uploaded).Receive error rate - The number of packets that encountered errors being received in packets per second (PPS).Transmit error rate - The number of packets that encountered errors being transmitted in packets per second (PPS).Receive broadcast rate - The number of broadcast packets in PPS being received on a port.Transmit broadcast rate - The number of broadcast packets in PPS being transmitted on a port.Receive multicast rate - The number of multicast packets in PPS being received on a port.Transmit multicast rate - The number of multicast packets in PPS being transmitted on a port.If you have any questions about the Switches or need further assistance, feel free to contact Meter Support at support@meter.com or submit a ticket on the Meter Dashboard
