The “Transaction Events” data collection in Advanced Analytics allows you to monitor bandwidth consumption in your environment. This article will show you how to draw actionable insights from bandwidth data with 3 typical use cases. 

Monitor Bandwidth Consumption by Sites

Malicious/suspicious site visits can bring huge security concerns to your organization. By monitoring bandwidth data by sites, you can easily uncover malicious/suspicious sites with high volume of bandwidth consumption in your environment, which helps you optimize your security policies and avoid uncontrolled access to those sites.

Monitor Bandwidth Consumption by Geolocations

Monitoring bandwidth data by geolocations allows you to identify top regions with high volume of bandwidth consumption. This will help you optimize your steering policies and avoid overusing your licenses in particular regions, e.g. China.

Monitor Bandwidth Consumption by Workplaces

Monitoring bandwidth data also allows you to identify office locations with extremely high volume of bandwidth consumption. You may want to consider adding/upgrading internet circuits for those office locations to avoid performance issues.

Please note that office locations need to be manually mapped based on source IPs. More details here. A sample dashboard is attached below. Feel free to import and view it in your own environment.