Traffic Analysis Extraction

sfalloon
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Traffic Analysis Extraction

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.

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jdsilva
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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...

Thank you @jdsilva
PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

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

Thank you @PhilipDAth
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