Load over Time Statistics View

The Load over Time Statistics display the network load over a configurable period of time. You can choose between different chart types to obtain information about the traffic that was caused by specific networks, systems, protocols, connections, or some combinations of these.

If this is the first time that you want to use the Load over Time Statistics, you may want to read the introduction in the Quickstart chapter first. You can configure the Statistics Module that shall be used, the chart type, the time settings, and the layout of the chart on the Load over Time Statistics Settings page of the Settings Dialog that is opened when you create a new Load over Time Statistics View.

The maximum number of different data groups that can be displayed in a chart is 10. You will always see the network traffic sources that caused the most total traffic over the configured period of time. One data group is always reserved for 'other' traffic. This group is always displayed as gray bar or line. It contains traffic that was generated by other groups that are currently not the top causers of traffic as well as rounding differences that may arise if not a byte based value type was chosen.

Note: If you use 'Internet...' (or 'L3 Addr...') statistics modules, you may not see the total amount of network traffic in the chart as LAN only packets (e.g. ARP) will not be evaluated by the statistics collector.

You can copy the chart as enhanced metafile to the clipboard or save the chart as bitmap (PNG, BMP) or metafile to disk. The Quickstart introduction describes this in more detail.