cPacket Grafana Plugin

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Built to work with the cPacket cClear product, this plugin includes a collection of dashboards for network observability, a Packet Analytics Collector Panel to collect network traffic and a Packet Capture Panel to download PCAP for inspection in tools like Wireshark. This plugin will not function fully without a cPacket cClear.

Dashboards

The collection of dashboards observe protocols across all layers including network administrative protocols, data exchange and video or market data feeds. In addition to monitoring packets and bytes of the whole traffic stream at the IP layer, we inspect protocol specific metrics and events for TCP, DNS, HTTPS, DHCP, ICMP, PIM, IGMP, ESP, RTP, Market Data and much more.

With these provided dashboards, an administrator can track and monitor their networks by domain, by VLAN, by CIDR, by custom labels mapped to specific IPs, protocol and/or ports. When an IP or IP pair is known, you can go straight to the troubleshooting dashboards. Otherwise, our drilldown workflow starts from high level information discovery, to locating any specific issue, and, eventually, looking into a specific IP or IP conversation in a specific protocol within a small time window.

We hope this is enough to identify most issues, but if not, the raw packets of the traffic can be downloaded for further inspection in Wireshark.

You can find out more about the Observability Dashboards in our online documentation.

Packet Collector Panel

The Packet Collector Panel collects packet statistics by network layers and protocols for a specified IP/CIDR, write them to the database and become available for the dashboards provided.

Packet Download Panel

The Packet Capture Panel downloads raw packets into files that can be opened by Wireshark.