Ticket 02 – Analyze Traffic Patterns for an Application

Title: “When is our application experiencing peak traffic?”

Ticket Description

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

Device Name: CentralRegion-bigip-01

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

Protocol: HTTPS (TCP 443)

Tasks

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

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

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

Pay close attention to:

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

This concludes Ticket 2.

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