Ticket 02 – Analyze Traffic Patterns for an Application
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Title: “When is our application experiencing peak traffic?”
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Ticket Description
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  The application owner for *primary-app-site-1* has requested
  insight into traffic patterns for their HTTPS virtual server.
  They would like to understand when traffic volume is highest
  in order to plan scaling and maintenance windows.

Context
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  **Device Name:** CentralRegion-bigip-01

  **Virtual Server Name:** primary-app-site-1-https-vip

  **Protocol:** HTTPS (TCP 443)

Tasks
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  Determine which times of day and which days of the week
  show the highest traffic for the virtual server
  primary-app-site-1-https-vip on CentralRegion-bigip-01.1.

  Navigate to:

    **Dashboards >> BIG-IP Fleet >> Virtual Servers**

  .. image:: ../images/image4.png
      :width: 500px
      :alt: Fleet Dashboard navigation

  From "Data Center" add the Data Center:
    
    **Antarctica**

  From "Devices" leave the default value as:

    **bigip/CentralRegion-bigip-01**

  From the "Virtual Server" dropdown, verify only below is selected:

    **primary-app-site-1-https-vip**

  Click the *"Apply Filters"* button.

  Review the following panels:

    - VS is Available
    - VS Connection Rate
    - VS Data Rate
    

  Use the Time Range dropdown in the upper-right corner
  to expand the view to at least the Last 7 Days.

Deliverables
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  Briefly answer the following:

    - What is the graph telling you about the Virtual Server availability? What percentage has this Virtual Server been up over the last 7 days?

  Review the following for additional information and trends:

    - Peak time(s) of day
    - Peak day(s) of week
    - Observed traffic behavior (weekday spikes, weekend drops, steady patterns, etc.)
    - Recommended maintenance window based on traffic analysis

Hints
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  Pay close attention to:

    - VS is Available panel
    - Request rate trends
    - Throughput (bps)
    - Connection counts
    - Historical time-based views

This concludes Ticket 2.

Go to `Ticket 03 - Determine Last Application Outage <../lab03/lab03.html>`_

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