Traffic Visualization

When GLB is enabled, the Virtual Traffic Manager provides additional information into the existing visualization and diagnostic tools in the Admin UI. For example, the World Map provides a real time view of incoming DNS requests and the GLB Location to which the client is subsequently connected (for more information, see The World Map).

To see a real time graph of the activity on your system, click Activity > Current Activity.

In the "Settings" section, you can plot your data by Virtual Traffic Manager or by Configuration Location. Both choices give you option to select all or some of the corresponding Virtual Traffic Managers or locations configured on your system, and whether to plot combined or separate results.

With GLB enabled, the Virtual Traffic Manager adds two new sets of metrics pertaining to your GLB Services and Locations to the monitor values tree on the Current Activity > Edit page.

For more information on the Current Activity graph, see Key Features in the Virtual Traffic Manager Administration Interface.

The Virtual Traffic Manager records the system’s activity for the past 90 days. To view this data in graphical form, click Activity > Historical Activity. You can see the data plotted on either a linear or logarithmic axes.

In the "Settings" section, you can plot your data by Virtual Traffic Manager or by Configuration Location. Both choices give you option to select all or some of the corresponding Virtual Traffic Managers or locations configured on your system, and whether to plot aggregate or separate results. You can plot a range of timescales from 1 hour to 90 days.

For more details about the Historical Activity Graph, see Key Features in the Virtual Traffic Manager Administration Interface.

To view information about recent load-balancing decisions the GLB cluster has made, click Activity > Connections. For more details about the Connections page, see Key Features in the Virtual Traffic Manager Administration Interface.

To view the individual requests handled by each GLB Service, click Activity > View Logs and click on the name of the GLB Service want to observe.

You must enable request logging for a GLB Service before the Virtual Traffic Manager can start collecting log information. For more details, see Request Logging.