Bandwidth Gauges - Bandwidth Meters
Bandwidth monitoring tools to track real-time network bandwidth usage
Track bandwidth usage in real time with a bandwidth meter
Tracking real-time bandwidth usage is an important part of an engineer’s job. SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset™ (ETS) is built to make it easier to start collecting real-time traffic load of an interface. Simply create your own bandwidth gauge and start collecting statistics of sent and received data.
With ETS, you can:
- Set the polling frequency of the selected device to update the gauges at desired intervals
- See the current data in table format below the meters
- See historic bandwidth meter data as graphs and charts
Set up bandwidth gauges for multiple interfaces
With SolarWinds ETS, you can create multiple gauges and save their configuration as a file you can load any time. Then you can monitor multiple interfaces by running several bandwidth gauges simultaneously.
The Bandwidth Gauges application is ideal for monitoring a range of interfaces to assess load distribution. You can also run Bandwidth Gauges as integrated gadgets in the Engineer's Toolset (ETS) Workspace Studio®, enabling you to monitor a few interfaces and analyze their historical graphs.
Easily deploy user-friendly bandwidth gauges
Bandwidth Gauges is a key tool in SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset, built for at-a-glance insight into performance issues with dials that include color-coded warning zones. Once you install ETS, you can quickly locate Bandwidth Gauges in the Network Monitoring folder and start monitoring without delay. While the dials are designed for visibility and ease of use, the dashboard also allows you to see both current and historical data in graphs or charts, as needed.
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Do you find yourself asking…
Bandwidth is one of the most used terms in the technology world. Bandwidth is essentially the capacity of a given network. It’s defined as the maximum amount of data that could hypothetically be transferred from a source at a given time. It’s a theoretical amount—not a measure of the actual amount of data being transferred.
Bandwidth exists in both physical and wireless communication networks, like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. More specifically, it’s the bit-rate measure of transmission capacity over a comprehensive network communication system. Efficient communication and transmission depend on having similar data rates at both ends. Otherwise, there will be delays in communication on critical applications when data is sent from a source with one data rate to a destination with a different data rate.
Though seemingly straightforward, bandwidth is often mistaken for other key concepts like speed, latency, and throughput. To understand bandwidth, you need to understand the distinctions between the following concepts:
Bandwidth vs. Throughput: The difference between throughput and bandwidth is the difference between the real and the theoretical. Throughput tells you how much information was transferred in a certain amount of time, while bandwidth is how much could hypothetically be transferred. Bandwidth represents the maximum amount of data that could be transferred, while throughput is how much of the data makes it to the destination, taking factors like latency, packet loss, network speed, and more into account.
Bandwidth vs. Latency: Latency, sometimes referred to as ping rate or delay, is the lag you experience when you’re waiting for something to load. If bandwidth is defined as the amount of information designed to be sent per second, latency represents the amount of time it takes for information to get to you from its source.
Bandwidth vs. Speed: Bandwidth measures the amount of information you can receive every second, while speed represents how quickly information is received and downloaded. In short, speed measures time, while bandwidth measures volume.
Bandwidth is one of the most used terms in the technology world. Bandwidth is essentially the capacity of a given network. It’s defined as the maximum amount of data that could hypothetically be transferred from a source at a given time. It’s a theoretical amount—not a measure of the actual amount of data being transferred.
Bandwidth exists in both physical and wireless communication networks, like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. More specifically, it’s the bit-rate measure of transmission capacity over a comprehensive network communication system. Efficient communication and transmission depend on having similar data rates at both ends. Otherwise, there will be delays in communication on critical applications when data is sent from a source with one data rate to a destination with a different data rate.
Though seemingly straightforward, bandwidth is often mistaken for other key concepts like speed, latency, and throughput. To understand bandwidth, you need to understand the distinctions between the following concepts:
Bandwidth vs. Throughput: The difference between throughput and bandwidth is the difference between the real and the theoretical. Throughput tells you how much information was transferred in a certain amount of time, while bandwidth is how much could hypothetically be transferred. Bandwidth represents the maximum amount of data that could be transferred, while throughput is how much of the data makes it to the destination, taking factors like latency, packet loss, network speed, and more into account.
Bandwidth vs. Latency: Latency, sometimes referred to as ping rate or delay, is the lag you experience when you’re waiting for something to load. If bandwidth is defined as the amount of information designed to be sent per second, latency represents the amount of time it takes for information to get to you from its source.
Bandwidth vs. Speed: Bandwidth measures the amount of information you can receive every second, while speed represents how quickly information is received and downloaded. In short, speed measures time, while bandwidth measures volume.
Track bandwidth usage with a bandwidth meter
Engineer's Toolset
- Gain insight on real-time traffic load on any device on remote networks.
- Run multiple instances of bandwidth gauges in parallel to assess load distribution.
- Select any interface or subinterface of a frame relay to monitor.
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