Documentation forNetFlow Traffic Analyzer
Analyzing network traffic and bandwidth is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced and is also available in a standalone module, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA). Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced and NTA are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

Edit an NTA report

This section provides details on the most usual edits in reports:

Change objects that are being reported on

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. On the Edit Report view, under Content, click Edit next to the For list.
  5. Change the objects for the report on the Add Content menu, and click Add to Layout.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Change the time of the report

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. On the Edit Report view, under Content, select a time period in the From list.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Define a customized time period

Reports only support uninterrupted time intervals. It is not possible to report on repeated time periods, such as the peak hours traffic in a specified week, or report on all working days in a month.

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. On the Edit Report view, under Content, select Custom in the From list.
  5. In the Add Time Period menu, enter a Named Time Period. This name is used in the For list.
  6. Specify the time period: relative or custom.
  7. Click Add.
  8. Select the new custom time period in the From list.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Change the page layout

You can change a report layout so that you have two or more data sources next to each other to compare the values.

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. On the Edit Report view, under Content, select a layout from the Page Layout list.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Change the logo

You may need to replace the default SolarWinds logo with your company's logo. The provided space allows for maximum height of 103 pixels and a maximum width of 238 pixels. Larger images are scaled to fit the space.

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. On the Edit Report view, under Content, select Logo.
  5. Click Browse for Logo, navigate to the file, and then select it.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Limit access to the report

You can specify a group of users who can access individual reports.

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. Click the Properties tab at the top of the screen.
  5. Expand Report Limitation, and then select a report under Report Limitation Category.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Specify custom properties

You can assign custom properties to your reports to help you manage your reports. For example, you can have a custom property called Department, and provide the information for which department the report is used.

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. Click the Properties tab at the top of the screen.
  5. Enter values for all required custom properties.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.

Schedule a report

You can set the report to run according to a defined schedule. Generated reports can be sent to an email address. SolarWinds NPM 10.7 or newer is required.

  1. Click Reports > All Reports.
  2. Click Manage Reports.
  3. Select a report and click Edit Report or Duplicate & Edit if you want to edit a copy of the report and retain the original. To find historical NetFlow reports, under Group By select Report Category, and click Historical NetFlow Reports.
  4. Click the Schedule Report tab at the top of the screen.
  5. Click Schedule This Report to Run Regularly.
  6. Assign an existing schedule or create a new one.
  1. Complete the wizard.

    You can either use the Next buttons or click the Summary tab to switch directly to the last screen. Click Submit.