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Network Routers and Switches

Network Routers and Switches

Router and Switch telemetry from Network Monitoring give you valuable insights into potential issues with your network.

What's included?

dashboards
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Network Routers and Switches quickstart contains 1 dashboard. These interactive visualizations let you easily explore your data, understand context, and resolve problems faster.
alerts
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Network Routers and Switches observability quickstart contains 7 alerts. These alerts detect changes in key performance metrics. Integrate these alerts with your favorite tools (like Slack, PagerDuty, etc.) and New Relic will let you know when something needs your attention.
Ping Response Time Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch takes more than 500 ms to respond to a ping. This requires that ping based checks are enabled in the ktranslate config using the response_time or ping_only options.
Ping Packet Loss % Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch fails to respond to at least 10% of the pings sent by ktranslate. This indicates problems on the device or in the network between the container and the device.
Average Transmit % Used Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch interface with *uplink* in the description has more than 90% transmit utilization. You can change the filter this to only alert for specific interface names or descriptions.
Average CPU % Used Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch has more than 90% CPU utilization.
Average Memory % Used Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch has more than 90% memory utilization.
Uplink Interface Down Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch interface with the word "uplink" in the description reports as being down. You can change the NRQL to filter to other naming conventions.
Average Receive % Used Violation
This alert will trigger when a router or switch interface that has *uplink* in the description has more than 90% receive utilization. You can change the filter this to only alert for specific interface names or descriptions.
documentation
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Network Routers and Switches observability quickstart contains 1 documentation reference. This is how you'll get your data into New Relic.

The Network Routers and Switches quickstart provides a dashboard that gives you a holistic view of the interface traffic across all of the routers and switches in your network, as well as example alerts to get you started. Use this quickstart together with New Relic's Network Monitoring feature to visualize anomalies and/or bottlenecks in your network.

How to use this quickstart

  • Sign Up for a free New Relic account or Log In to your existing account.
  • Click the install button.
  • Install the quickstart to get started or improve how you monitor your environment. They're filled with pre-built resources like dashboards, instrumentation, and alerts.
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