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Monitoring the environmental impact of web usage

  • May 14, 2025
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Hello,

As part of an initiative to raise awareness of the digital impact within our organisation, we would like to set up a Netskope dashboard to identify web uses with a high carbon impact.

Objective:
To produce consumption indicators relating to user access to sites considered to have a high environmental footprint, including:

  • Video streaming platforms,
  • Social networks,
  • Sites with high bandwidth or high data consumption rates.

Do you already have dashboards on this topic?

How can we do this? 

  • Identify the categories of applications/sites available in Netskope that correspond to these uses;
  • Create or adapt a dashboard enabling us to:
  • Monitor consumption (time, data volume, frequency of access, etc.) by site category;
  • Isolate uses with a presumed high environmental impact;


 

Best answer by Aaron_Zhang

Hi ​@jsoleilnorauto ,

Our Application Category Dashboard will be a great starting point for your use cases.

The dashboard provides visibility into application usage by category in your environment, which helps you understand:

  • What applications are being used
  • What unmanaged & risky applications are being used
  • How these applications are being used (user count, event count, data movement volume, etc.)

By default, the dashboard focuses on Cloud Storage applications, but you can modify the application category using the “Category” filter on top of the dashboard.

The dashboard template can be found at the bottom of this post. Feel free to take a look and let us know if you need help with customizing/expanding this dashboard!

Best,

Aaron

 

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Aaron_Zhang
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  • May 14, 2025

Hi ​@jsoleilnorauto ,

Our Application Category Dashboard will be a great starting point for your use cases.

The dashboard provides visibility into application usage by category in your environment, which helps you understand:

  • What applications are being used
  • What unmanaged & risky applications are being used
  • How these applications are being used (user count, event count, data movement volume, etc.)

By default, the dashboard focuses on Cloud Storage applications, but you can modify the application category using the “Category” filter on top of the dashboard.

The dashboard template can be found at the bottom of this post. Feel free to take a look and let us know if you need help with customizing/expanding this dashboard!

Best,

Aaron