Traffic Analysis Extraction

[sfalloon]

With the use of the Meraki dashboard, one can access quite a bit of network traffic data.

I am trying to find out if there is a way to extract this data to create reports and generate specific traffic analysis via an API or some other known method.

[jdsilva]

There's the summary reports under Organization > Monitor > Summary reports. That has some basic reporting on application data.

You could try and build something by polling this endpoint:

https://api.meraki.com/api_docs#return-the-clients-network-traffic-data-over-time

But that pulls each client individually... You'd have to track all your clients, pull all their data, and aggregate into something readable. 

There might be other options to...

[sfalloon]

Thank you @jdsilva

[PhilipDAth]

I agree with everything @jdsilva says.

If you want to take it a step further you'll need to deploy a netflow collector and enable netflow, and do your own traffic analyitics and reporting.  This is a lot of work.

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Monitoring_and_Reporting/NetFlow_Overview

[sfalloon]

Thank you @PhilipDAth