Conversations dashboards

This topic gives you an overview of the Conversations dashboards usage.

To access the Conversations dashboards, click NetFlow > Conversations and select any one of the dashboards:

Top Conversations with Application
Top Conversations with ToS
Top Conversations

Top Conversations with Application

This dashboard provides a view of the top 10 most bandwidth consuming conversations with applications that are conducted over your monitored network. Conversations with application are listed with the amount of data that is transferred in the conversation, in both octets and packets.

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You can select the Table 1 that you want to display in dashboards to which the filter is assigned.

Table 1. Available Widgets
Widget Name	Chart Type	Description
Top 10 Conversations with Application	Donut	Displays the top 10 conversations with application name with its total traffic volume in octets. The percentage of the conversations with application is based on the selection on the widget. The individual conversation with application in the legend adds up to 100%. This percentage can be absolute or relative.
Traffic Volume Trend	Timeseries	This timeseries widget displays the Traffic Volume trend in octets across a selected time period. You can choose to display the Utilization trend in percentage or the Throughput trend in bit per second (bps). It describes how the conversation traffic uses the interface bandwidth in octets, bps, or percentage.
Top 10 Conversations with Application	Grid	Displays the Top 10 traffic data (in octets and packets) that flows in the selected conversations with application through the selected interface of a device. The columns display depend on the flow direction, either Inbound or Outbound for the selected time period.

Top Conversations with ToS

This dashboard provides a view of the top 10 most bandwidth consuming conversations with ToS conducted over your monitored network. Conversations with ToS are listed with the amount of data that is transferred in the conversation, in both octets and packets.

Table 2. Available Widgets
Widget Name	Chart Type	Description
Top 10 Conversations with ToS	Donut	Displays the top 10 conversations with ToS name with its total traffic volume in octets. The percentage of the conversations with ToS is based on the selection on the widget. The individual conversation in the legend adds up to 100%. This percentage can be absolute or relative.
Traffic Volume Trend	Timeseries	This timeseries widget displays the Traffic Volume trend in octets across a selected time period. You can choose to display the Utilization trend in percentage or the Throughput trend in bit per second (bps). It describes how the conversation traffic uses the interface bandwidth in octets, bps, or percentage.
Top 10 Conversations with ToS	Grid	Displays the Top 10 traffic data (in octets and packets) that flows in the selected conversations with ToS through the selected interface of a device. The columns display depend on the flow direction, either Inbound or Outbound for the selected time period.

Top Conversations

This dashboard provides a view of the top 10 most bandwidth consuming conversations, which are conducted over your monitored network. Conversations are listed with the amount of data that is transferred in the conversation, in both octets and packets.

Table 3. Available Widgets
Widget Name	Chart Type	Typical uses
Top 10 Conversations	Donut	Displays the top 10 conversations name with its total traffic volume in octets. The percentage of the conversations is based on the selected conversation that is shown by the widget. The individual conversation in the legend adds up to 100%. This percentage can be absolute or relative.
Traffic Volume Trend	Timeseries	This timeseries widget displays the Traffic Volume trend in octets across a selected time period. You can choose to display the Utilization trend in percentage or the Throughput Trend in bit per second (bps). It describes how the conversation traffic uses the interface bandwidth in octets, bps, or percentage.
Top 10 Conversations	Grid	Displays the Top 10 traffic data (in octets and packets) that flows in the selected conversations through the selected interface of a device. The columns display depend on the flow direction, either Inbound or Outbound for the selected time period.