Meraki MX, should 'client' traffic equal 'network' traffic

[brad1028]

Should the traffic shown on the Clients tab equal the network usage shown on the Appliance status tab?

[ConnorL]

This'll be aggregating all traffic on MX/S/R etc. Traffic between two wireless clients, for example, wouldn't show on the Security & SD-WAN > Appliance Status page, but it would be counted on the Network-Wide > Clients page by the MR.

[brad1028]

So should the client traffic at a minimum equal the appliance traffic?  Any traffic going in or out of the appliance should hit a client.

[cmr]

In general if you have 1 switch and all traffic goes through that then yes I would expect approximate parity as below:

Equally one MX on a network with no servers should be pretty similar with the appliance averaging over a longer time period, so lower peaks but the area under the line is similar:

However go beyond a network of one switch , one MX or one AP and it can get very different.