topic Re: Units for MX usage and bandwidth data in Network Platform API

Units for MX usage and bandwidth data

CBurkhead — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:20:49 GMT

I am working with data from the /networks/{networkId}/appliance/uplinks/usageHistory and /networks/{networkId}/appliance/trafficShaping/uplinkBandwidth endpoints. The question I have is what units this data is in? The usage values for the sent and received data seems to be bytes based on what I am seeing. The bandwidth limitUp and limlitDown values I think are in Kbps based on the values I am getting and what I know about the connections to the appliances.

Does anyone know for certain? Is there somewhere I can look that has the data definition for the endpoints that includes units for data when it is not obvious?

Thanks!

Re: Units for MX usage and bandwidth data

sungod — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:02:54 GMT

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-appliance-uplinks-usage-history the description says that usage is in bytes.

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-appliance-traffic-shaping-uplink-bandwidth is kbps, to see this you need to scroll down to the 'schema definition' and expand it.

Re: Units for MX usage and bandwidth data

CBurkhead — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:07:10 GMT

I know I read that description multiple times and I missed where it said bytes. Must need more coffee...or maybe less coffee. Thanks for the info on the schema. That will be very useful for the future.

Re: Units for MX usage and bandwidth data

sungod — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:11:03 GMT

Yeah, it's easy to miss as there's no consistency about how/where (or if) units are defined.