Network Metrics

The Machine Agent is configured to ignore virtual networks by default. See Machine Agent Settings for Server Visibility.

Metric Name Description Basic or Server Visibility Windows Linux Solaris AIX Default Monitoring Mode
Incoming KB2 The volume of data received by all monitored network devices. Basic Advanced
Incoming KB/sec The amount of data per second received by all monitored network devices. Basic KPI
Incoming packets2 The number of packets received by all monitored network devices. Basic Advanced
Incoming packets/sec The number of data packets per second received by all monitored network devices. Basic Advanced
Outgoing KB2 The volume of data sent by all monitored network devices. Basic Advanced
Outgoing KB/sec The volume of data sent per second by all monitored network devices. Basic KPI
Outgoing packets2 The number of packets sent by all monitored network devices. Basic Advanced
Outgoing packets/sec The number of data packets sent per second by all monitored network devices. Basic Advanced
Incoming Errors/min The number of incoming packet errors the network incurs every minute. Server Visibility KPI
Outgoing Errors/min The number of outgoing packet errors the network incurs every minute. Server Visibility KPI
Avg Utilization (%)

The average network utilization as a percentage of the maximum possible throughput. This metric is not reported if the agent cannot determine the throughput (not supported for some devices and Linux versions). The percentage is rounded to the nearest integer. Therefore, very low utilization may be reported as 0%. Reported for:

  • Servers
  • <group>
  • <network interface>
 Server Visibility KPI
<network interface> Incoming KB The volume of data received by the selected network interface. Basic Advanced
<network interface> Incoming KB/sec The volume of data received per second by the selected network interface. Basic KPI
<network interface> Incoming packets The number of data packets received by the selected network interface. Basic Advanced
<network interface> Incoming packets/sec The number of data packets received per second by the selected network interface. Basic Advanced
<network interface> Outgoing KB The volume of data sent by the selected network interface. Basic Advanced
<network interface> Outgoing KB/sec The volume of data sent per second by all monitored network interface. Basic KPI
<network interface> Outgoing packets The number of data packets sent per second by the selected network interface. Basic Advanced
<network interface> Outgoing packets/sec The number of data packets sent per second by the selected network interface. Basic Advanced

<network interface>Incoming Errors/min

The number of incoming packet errors the network incurs every minute.

 Server Visibility KPI

<network interface>Outgoing Errors/min

The number of outgoing packet errors the network incurs every minute.

 Server Visibility KPI

1See Default Monitoring Mode.

2The ServerMonitoring and JavaHardwareMonitor extensions calculate unidirectional throughput (packet/KB) metrics differently. ServerMonitoring reports the total number of packets/bytes in the last minute. JavaHardwareMonitor reports the total number of packets/bytes from the time the Machine Agent started.