Documentation forNetFlow Traffic Analyzer
Analyzing network traffic and bandwidth is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Advanced edition. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is also available in a standalone module.

Top XX Types of Service

This widget provides a view of the most active services on your monitored network.

When placed on the Node Details or Interface Details view, this widget provides a view of the service types responsible for the most traffic passing through the viewed node or interface over the selected period of time.

For more information about types of service monitored in NTA, see Configuring NetFlow types of service.

View more details about service types

Click a listed service type to open the NetFlow Types of Service Summary view that presents statistics for the selected type of service. For more details, see NetFlow Types of Service Summary View.

Click + to expand a listed type of service and display the list of nodes and their respective interfaces through which traffic using the selected type of service is traversing.

Click a node or interface to display the NetFlow Types of Service detail view showing statistics for the selected type of service traffic traversing through the appropriate node or interface. For more details, see NetFlow Types of Service View.

Top XX Types of Service (Endpoint Centric)

You can customize an endpoint-centric version of this widget and place it on the NetFlow Node Details or Interface Details view. The endpoint-centric Top XX Types of Service widget provides a ranked list of service types with which the selected node or interface initiated or terminated traffic.

For more information about adding endpoint-centric widgets, see Add endpoint-centric widgets to NTA views.

Table legend

The table below the chart provides the following information:

Column Title Contents
Type of Service Displays the type of service.
Ingress Bytes, Egress Bytes
Ingress Packets, Egress Packets
Displays the amount of traffic, in both bytes and packets, handled by the listed service through the viewed object over the selected period of time.
The columns displayed depend on the flow direction set in the top left corner of the view (either only Ingress Bytes, or only Egress Bytes, or both columns).
Percent (Utilization) Displays the percentage of all serviced traffic through the viewed object that is handled by the listed type of service.

The first value describes the percentage of the appropriate item based on items shown by the chart. Individual items in the legend add up 100%. This percentage can be absolute or relative. For more information, see Set the Percentage type for Top XX lists.

A value in parentheses is available only for interfaces. It describes how the appropriate item utilizes the interface bandwidth in percentage.

If the utilization is approximately twice as high as it should be, for example 150% instead of 75%, it might be caused by flow duplication. For more information, see Resolve duplicate flows.

You can click each listed service type to open the NetFlow Types of Service Details view that presents similar statistics for each service type. Clicking a service type opens the NetFlow Type of Service view for the selected service type.

For more information about types of service monitored in NTA, see Configuring NetFlow types of service.

Edit the widget

If you are logged in using a User ID with administrative privileges, you can change the way this widget is displayed for all users:

  1. Click Edit to load the Edit Resource page.
  2. Make changes.
  3. Click Submit.

Edit time and flow direction for the view

You can also change the time period and flows direction shown by all widgets in the view:

  1. Directly below the view name, click next to the appropriate setting and define the appropriate settings.
  2. Change the Relative Time Period, by default set to 1 hour prior to the current time, or specify a specific time period.

The time and flow direction settings are limited to the current session only. After you leave the view, your changes will be lost and default settings are re-applied.