IPFIX/Netflow5/Netflow9 metric type provides the metrics, properties, and tags to represent the flow statistics of the physical and virtual network adapters.
The VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance collectors constructs this metric type with Flow statistics performance metrics for network devices, servers, and virtual devices. In the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance out-of-the box reports, this metric type is used to show the summary of Flow statistics performance trends per device and per Flow statistics instance. Leverage this metric type to create custom reports to represent Flow statistics performance using other Grafana widgets or new filters. Similarly, custom collectors can construct the metric type for the different vendor and create custom reports.
{
"instance": "IPFix",
"metricType": "IPFix-10",
"metrics": {
"BYTES": 8391,
"FLOW_SEQUENCE": 174822061,
"PROTOCOL": 17,
"PACKETS": 7
},
"processedTimestamp": 1616016975980,
"properties": {
"deviceType": "IPV4_SRC_ADDR",
"entityType": "IPV4_DST_ADDR",
"entityName": "10.78.163.97",
"dataSource": "10.107.146.173",
"deviceName": "10.3.1.1"
},
"tags": {
"APPLICATION_CATEGORY_NAME": "APP_CLASS_WEB",
"APPLICATION_ID": "760779640831",
"APPLICATION_NAME": "tcp",
"avgLatencyRxMs": 0,
"avgLatencyTxMs": 1,
"biflowDirection": 1,
"bizPolicyId": 0,
"CREATE_TIME": 1610919812406,
"customer": "",
"DESTINATION_UUID": "fa63d8fde1524595b7b6b2774e0f03d1",
"DSCP": "CS0",
"DSCP_ECN": 0,
"DST_PORT": 53,
"flowEndMilliseconds": 1610919812406,
"flowEndReason": 2,
"FLOWS": 6,
"IF_DESC": "GE5",
"IF_NAME": "GE5",
"ingressVRFID": 2,
"INPUT_SNMP": 75900053,
"IN_SRC_MAC": "0:50:56:85:f1:e3",
"interfaceType": 4,
"IPV4_NEXT_HOP": "13.2.1.1",
"jitterRxMs": 0,
"jitterTxMs": 0,
"LINK_NAME": "11.4.2.1",
"LINK_UUID": "00000005a52b4ebd9f13862c71823f5b",
"lostPacketsRxDeltaCount": 0,
"NEXT_HOP_UUID": "fa63d8fde1524595b7b6b2774e0f03d1",
"NFID": 92537,
"octetDeltaCount_rev": 99917,
"OUTPUT_SNMP": 75900053,
"packetDeltaCount_rev": 999,
"packetsLostDeltaTxCount": 0,
"PRIMARY_IPV4_ADDRESS": "11.4.2.1",
"replicatedPacketsRxDeltaCount": 0,
"replicatedPacketsTxDeltaCount": 0,
"retransmittedPacketsTxDeltaCount": 0,
"rxLossPercent": 0,
"SOURCE_ID": 174822061,
"SRC_VLAN": 0,
"TOS": "Critic/ECP",
"TOS_REST": 12,
"txLossPercent": 0,
"UNKNOWN_NF9_FIELD_45085": 0,
"UNKNOWN_NF9_FIELD_45086": 9,
"vcFlowPath": 0,
"vcLinkPolicy": 2,
"vcPriority": 2,
"vcRouteType": 1,
"vcTrafficType": 1,
"VRF_NAME": "segment1"
},
"timestamp": 1616016975000,
"type": "IP_FLOW_EXPORT"
}
The following table includes JSON definitions.
| JSON | Description | Units |
BYTES |
The number of octets since the previous report (if any) in incoming packets for this Flow at the Observation Point. The number of octets includes IP header(s) and IP payload. | Octets |
PACKETS |
The number of incoming packets since the previous report (if any) for this Flow at the Observation Point. | Packets |
PROTOCOL |
The value of the protocol number in the IP packet header. The protocol number identifies the IP packet payload type. Protocol numbers are defined in the IANA Protocol Numbers registry. | Integer |
OUT_PKTS |
The definition of this Information Element is identical to the definition of Information Element 'packetDeltaCount', except that it reports a potentially modified value caused by a middlebox function after the packet passed the Observation Point. | Packets |
OUT_BYTES |
The definition of this Information Element is identical to the definition of Information Element 'octetDeltaCount', except that it reports a potentially modified value caused by a middlebox function after the packet passed the Observation Point. | Octets |
PACKETS_DROPPED |
A count of the packets dropped. | Counter |
APPLICATION_MEDIA_PACKETS |
A count of the number of packets with a media payload. | Packets |
TRANSPORT_PACKETS_EXPECTED |
Expected number of packets from sequencing information. | Packets |
APPLICATION_MEDIA_BYTES |
A count of the number of bytes with a media payload. | Bytes |
