Network widgets
In addition to standard visualizations of metric data, the following widgets display detailed insights into your network devices and their connections, interfaces, volumes, and flow data.
Active Alerts
In Entity Explorer, on the Overview or Interfaces tab.
An overview of the active alerts triggered by network devices or interfaces, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.
For more information about the entity's active alerts, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis (
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Default Route Changes
A table listing any changes to default routes in the designated network that include the viewed node. The widget is available on the Routing tab.
Available details include the next hop, route change and the time stamp of the last change.
Use the drop-down to filter widget by virtual routing and forwarding (VRF). The default VRF is Main.
Details
On the Overview tab, the Details widget shows details about the device, such as name, native state, vendor, IP address, and more.
On Interface details tab, the Details widget shows details about the interface, such as name, state, native state, or interface speed.
On Sensor details tab, the Details widget shows a brief description of the sensor.
On Volume details tab, the Details widget shows details about the volume, such as name, state, native state, volume type, or size.
Device Details
Device details include the network device native state, information whether the IP address is dynamic (Yes/No), machine type, device category, system name, description, object ID, software version, and more.
Ethernet Ports Used Over Time
On Ports tab in an entity details view; a time series widget displaying port usage over time.
Flow widgets
Top Protocols
A donut chart displaying the protocols used most for traffic on your monitored network.
Top Countries
A donut chart displaying the countries hosting endpoints that transmit the most data over your monitored network.
Top Endpoints
An area chart of the monitored endpoints that are producing the most traffic on your monitored network.
Top Conversations
An area chart displaying most bandwidth-consuming conversations conducted over your monitored network.
Top Applications
An area chart displaying the top applications responsible for monitored traffic on your network, ranked in order of traffic volume.
Top Advanced Applications
An area chart displaying the top applications recognized through NBAR2 responsible for monitored traffic on your network, ranked in order of traffic volume.
Top Flow Sources
Top ten devices which send flow data to SolarWinds Observability SaaS. Click the link in the Name column to go to the device details view.
Health
On SD-WAN tabs in SD-WAN network device details views, the widget shows the health of tunnels, WAN uplinks, and interfaces on the entity.
IP Addresses
The IP Addresses widget provides a list of IP addresses discovered for the network device.
Polling Details
The Polling Details widget includes the polling IP address, polling method, the frequency of polling status and metrics on the device, and more.
Ports
On Ports tab in an entity details view; displays details about ports, such as status, IP, vendor, MAC Address, and more.
Ports Currently in Use
On Ports tab in an entity details view; displays how many ports are in use and free now.
Routing Neighbors
Routing neighbors of the device. The widget is available on the Routing tab.
Available details include the neighbor node name, protocol, status, IP address, whether it is a remote neighbor, and the last change time stamp. If the neighbor network device is monitored with SolarWinds Observability SaaS, you can click the device name to open the network device details view.
Routing Table
A snapshot of the routing table of the currently viewed network device. The table is available on the Routing tab.
Available details include the destination, CIDR, next hop, interface, metric, or source.
Use the drop-down to filter widget by virtual routing and forwarding (VRF). The default VRF is Main.
Top Domains
A donut chart displaying the domains responsible for the most traffic through all devices exporting flow (on the Flows tab on the Network area overview) or through the selected network device (on the Flows tab on a device details view).
Top Domains Ingress / Top Domains Egress
A time series widget on the Flows tab on an interface details view that display the domains responsible for the most incoming (Ingress) or outgoing (Egress) traffic through the interface.
Top 10 Flapping Routes
A list of top 10 flapping routes in the designated network, by default ordered by the number of flaps over the designated time period in descending order. The widget is available on the Routing tab.
Use the drop-down to filter widget by virtual routing and forwarding (VRF). The default VRF is Main.
Available details include the number of Flaps over the recorded over the designated period of time, the Destination IP of the flapping route, the CIDR block size of the listed route, next hop on the listed route, the protocol used by the route, and the time stamp of the last change in the route.
If the next hop devices is monitored with SolarWinds Observability SaaS, you can click the device in the Next Hope column to open the network device details view.
Topology Map
A topology map shows relationships between the network device and other network devices that communicate with it. Borders are color-coded by health status.
You can filter the widget to display L2, L3, or all connections.
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Monitored network devices: The map shows the icon, name, and health score. Click an item to display the details in the Inspector Panel.
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Discovered network devices: The map only shows the IP address and a question mark icon; the border is a gray dotted line. No additional details are available, therefore the Inspector Panel is disabled.
Top Tunnels by Jitter / Top Tunnels by Latency / Top Tunnels by Packet Loss
On Tunnel Performance tabs in SD-WAN network device details views, the widget lists tunnels with most jitter, latency, or packet loss on the device.
Trends on Top Tunnels by Jitter / Trends of Top Tunnels by Latency / Trends of Top Tunnels by Packet Loss
These time series widgets on the Tunnel Performance tab in SD-WAN network device details views show in a graph how jitter, latency, or packet loss of tunnels with the highest amount of jitter, latency, or packet loss developed over time.
Tunnels
On SD-WAN or Tunnel Performance tabs in SD-WAN network device details views, the widget lists tunnels on the device and provides more info on their status and both source and target devices and interfaces.
If you click on a tunnel in the Tunnels widget on the Tunnel Performance tab, the Inspector Panel opens and shows jitter, latency, and packet loss information for the tunnel.
WAN Uplinks
On SD-WAN tabs in SD-WAN network device details views, the widget lists uplinks with details, such as interface name, status, or IP.
WAN Utilization (MB)
On SD-WAN tabs in SD-WAN network device details views, the widget shows the branch name, details on traffic utilization for the current device (In, Out, Total), the application with the most traffic, its protocol, and host IP for the time period set for the view.