Monitoring Traffic on Devices

The monitors on the Traffic tab provide information about the traffic traversing routers and virtual MX Series (vMX) routers.

To monitor traffic on a device:

Click Monitor in the Connectivity Services Director banner.
Select the device in the View pane that contains the traffic you want to monitor.
Select the Traffic tab to open the traffic monitors.
To get help for a monitor, click the Help button in its title bar.

The available monitors include:

Unicast vs Broadcast/Multicast Monitor: shows the distribution of unicast, broadcast, and multicast traffic entering and leaving the device.
Unicast vs Broadcast/Multicast Trend Monitor: shows trend data about the distribution of unicast, broadcast, and multicast traffic entering and leaving the device.
Traffic Trend Monitor: shows trend data about the amount of traffic entering and leaving the device.
Error Trend Monitor: shows trend data about the amount of errors on the device.