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WAN Clarity Data Center Reports

Learn about the WAN Clarity Data Center reports.
The Data Center reports provide an insight into utilization trends from a Data Center perspective. Similar to the branch reports, these reports identify top applications, source IP addresses, destination IP addresses, source-destination IP address pairs, and undefined domains along with top branches. You can generate this set of reports for hotspots observed in the data center.
It is important to note that a hotspot definition for a data center differs from that for a branch. While for branches, utilization over 70% of configured bandwidth is considered a hotspot, for a data center, you may consider 90th percentile utilization as a hotspot. It, therefore, becomes imperative that you accurately set the circuit bandwidth allocations at the data center. These reports provide an approximation of the utilization trends as the reports generated only consider overlay paths.
In summary, the WAN Clarity Report generates every week to help you understand how the circuits in the Prisma SD-WAN AppFabric can be utilized from an entire fabric, site, circuit, application, and user perspective. These reports provide actionable insights that you can use for capacity planning, path policy adjustments, QoS policy adjustments, and enforcement of proper use of network resources by the end-user community.
The following sections describe the data center reports in the WAN Clarity Reports in more detail.

Traffic Distribution

The Traffic Distribution report helps administrators understand traffic volume distribution to all the data centers in the AppFabric. These reports help understand traffic flow from branches, applications, and top applications from top branches to and from the data centers in the form of Sankey charts. These reports deliver an HTML report with Sankey charts for the top 10 contenders and a CSV file with the entire dataset.
Traffic Distribution: Top Applications Report
Provides details into the flow of application traffic to and from all the data centers in the AppFabric. It provides visibility into the top 10 ingress and egress applications by volume.
The HTML report also provides an insight into top applications by total volume across all the DCs in the form of a Combined Egress and Ingress traffic report.
In the examples above, there is only a single data center: DC1. The data flow label above the data center block indicates traffic flow, either to or from that data center.
In the case of multiple DCs, you may decipher the traffic volume going to each of the data centers from the flow stream's thickness. The supplemental CSV can help understand the accurate distribution of application traffic volume across the data centers.
See the sample report below:
Traffic Distribution: Top Branches Report
Provides details into the flow of branch traffic to all the data centers in the AppFabric. It provides visibility into the top 10 ingress and egress flows from branches by volume and a combined summary report.
Traffic Distribution: Top Applications from Top Branches
Provides details into the top 10 applications emerging from the top 10 branches to all the data centers in the AppFabric. The report provides visibility into top ingress and egress branches and the top applications' flow by volume emerging from these branches.