September 26, 2024
This section describes the new features released in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services.
New Features
Dashboard
Juniper Apstra Cloud Services dashboard provides operational insights about the performance of the data center network and the hosted services. These insights enable network administrators to proactively respond to events and anomalies that impact end user experience.
The dashboard is highly customizable and you can choose the widgets to be displayed and their layout. You can also create a custom dashboard to monitor specific insights according to your network's requirements. The information provided in the dashboard includes site information, impact analysis, inventory, and key anomalies in the devices, and the services. The Anomalies panel provides a list of anomalies that are generated in the site you selected.
Service Awareness
The Service Awareness feature provides a graphical representation of how services utilize the data center network. The service awareness feature provides a network resource-to-service mapping of the data center network and the services. This enables administrators to monitor the performance of the services and the devices to which the services are attached.
The Service Aware page displays services grouped by throughput, volume of data transferred, and by the number of connections. The Topology view helps administrators to identify anomalies in the devices that might impact the services. The flow view enables you to monitor traffic pattern between the data center devices.
Impact Analysis
The Impact Analysis feature enables administrators to proactively identify and resolve network issues that can impact end user experience. The Impact Analysis feature provides a graphical representation of the network infrastructure along with the path that the service traffic takes.
The network topology provides information about how nodes in the data center are connected to the clients, how application traffic is handled, and how an anomaly in a node can impact application traffic. Also, you can simulate failure scenarios and identify how failure of a device can impact the services attached and the clients connected to that device.
These visualizations enable network administrators to proactively identify potential impact that a link failure can have on service traffic.
[See Impact Analysis Overview]
Device Inventory
You can view detailed information about the devices managed by all the Apstra instances that are connected to Juniper Apstra Cloud Services. The Inventory page provides:
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Information about the Apstra-managed devices in the organization
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The total number of devices in the organization, grouped by their device models
You can filter the devices by site or view all the devices in the organization.
[See About the Inventory Page]
Enhancement to Edge Adoption Process
Juniper Apstra Cloud Services provides flow data information from the Apstra instance. You must configure Apstra Flow server information about the Adopt Apstra Edge page. Also, you should enable sFlow in the data center devices.
After Flow Server information is configured, you can view information about the data center network topology, hosts and endpoints, services, and anomalies, if any, on the Service Aware and the Impact Analysis pages.