Re: sflow -> aggregated aspath visualization?

[Peter Phaal <peter.phaal () gmail com>]

You could use Prometheus / Grafana to build the dashboards.

The following example is a starting point (top ASNs / Countries by traffic
volume):
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11146

The example could be modified to make the make router / interface
selectable, or cloned to create separate per router / interface dashboards.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:33 PM Adam Thompson <athompson () merlin mb ca>
wrote:

> I’m looking for product recommendations:
>
>
>
> We’ve noticed that about 20% of our traffic here lately has decamped from
> the free (or, at least, flat-rate) connection to CANARIE (our R&E network)
> and its various connected content-delivery networks, and onto our
> commercial provider.
>
> While this is presumptively a legitimate shift, we’d like to better
> understand these changes when they occur, in a way that our executive can
> understand at a glance.
>
> We do have sFlow (et al.) going to an Arbor PeakFlow box for analysis, but
> it’s lacklustre at best at understanding changes like this.
>
> I want:
>
>    - Top #n ASNs by traffic volume, per router/interface, stacked chart
>    - Some way to visualize large jumps in that dataset, e.g. if
>    Cloudflare ditched their CANARIE connection and now that traffic all goes
>    commercial, I don’t know what sort of graphic would be useful, maybe a
>    stacked polar chart so you could see when an AS jumped from one sector to
>    another?  Even stacked bar charts could be useful.
>
>
>
> If anyone knows of tools capable of generating easy-to-understand reports,
> dashboards, including historical “what changed this week”-type data, please
> let me know.
>
>
>
> For that matter, if you have a technique of collecting this data and using
> Excel to do the reporting, that would work too.
>
>
>
> (Yes, I could theoretically build this off of existing open source tools…
> eventually)