Applications Dashboard

Applies To: Wi-Fi Cloud-managed Access Points (AP120, AP125, AP225W, AP320, AP322, AP325, AP327X, AP420)

The Applications Dashboard provides application quality measurement for conferencing applications and web-based enterprise applications used by clients in your wireless network. This enables you to see which clients are experiencing application quality issues and the time period when application quality was poor.

Screen shot of the Applications Experience Dashboard page

The Application Dashboard contains these widgets:

Application Experience

The Application Experience widget lists several popular conferencing and web-based applications. The widget provides a count of good or poor client experiences, and a graph bar that indicates good or poor application experience in the last two hours for each application.

You can track up to 10 applications. You can pin a maximum of 5 out of the 10 applications on the widget. Click to select which applications to add or remove from the display.

  • Conferencing applications — Monitor popular conferencing applications such as Zoom, Skype, Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting, Slack, and WebEx.
  • Web-based enterprise applications — Monitor web-based enterprise applications such as email, human resources and project management applications, Intranet, Online Drives, and many other applications.
  • Custom applications — Click Custom Applications to define your own custom applications to monitor. You can define the application name, hostname/IP address, and the port number to monitor.

Web applications that use UDP are not supported. Application monitoring for quality experience inspects the IP and TCP headers only. No user data is inspected.

To see all monitored applications, click Show All. If you do not pin any applications, you can show the Most Affected or Most Used applications.

The Total Affected Clients value indicates the number of clients affected by poor application experience for all monitored applications.

The graph bar for each application uses red and green colors to indicate the status of client application experience. Red indicates clients affected by poor application experience, and green indicates the total unaffected clients. Hover on the graph bar to view a percentage count of clients with a poor application experience.

Below the graph bar, the number in black indicates the total number of clients using the application. The number in red indicates the total number of clients affected by poor application experience. Click the number to view detailed information on clients.

Screen shot of the Application Health widget on the Applications Dashboard

Click each application icon to view details specific to the application.

Baseline — Clients Affected

The Baseline — Client Affected chart calculates a baseline for the percentage of clients affected by poor application experience.

Hover on the individual data points to view data about clients that experienced application issues for the selected time interval.

You can select the SSID, frequency band, and time interval from the top-right corner of the widget.

For more information on how to read baseline charts in Discover, see Baseline Charts and Anomaly Detection.

Screen shot of the Baseline - Clients Affected chart on the Applications Dashboard

Baseline — % Poor Application Experience

The Baseline — % Poor App Experience chart calculates a baseline for the percentage of time for poor application experience.

Click the individual data points in the graph to view the filtered baseline charts.

You can select the specific conferencing applications, the SSID, frequency band, and time interval from the top-right corner of the widget.

For more information on how to read baseline charts in Discover, see Baseline Charts and Anomaly Detection.

Screen shot of the Baseline - % Poor Application Experience chart on the Applications Dashboard

Application Experience

The Application Experience chart provides information on the overall client experience for each application. Red indicates a poor application experience, and green indicates a good application experience.

Hover on a graph bar to view details of the conferencing application:

  • Total traffic
  • Total experience time
  • Percentage of time for poor application experience by a client

You can select the SSID and time interval from the top-right corner of the widget.

Screen shot of the Applications Experience widget on the Application Dashboard

Top Applications By Traffic

The Top Application By Traffic chart shows the top five applications in use by clients on your Wi-Fi network.

Screen shot of the Top Apps By Traffic widget on the Application Dashboard

  • Hover over a graph bar to see the amount of traffic for each application.
  • Click on an application graph bar to see details about application usage including a live application traffic chart and the list of top clients using the application.
  • You can select the SSID and time interval to view from the top-right corner of the widget.

Clients by Application Experience

The Clients by Application Experience widget shows the total number of clients with poor application experience for the selected applications and time period.

Screen shot of the Client by Application Experience widget on the Applications Dashboard in Discover