How to Check Utilization Percentage of an Interface

[hvctorgamez]

Hello! And thank you for reading! I'm very new to the world of Cisco Switches so I apologize if my question is dumb.

I was investigating packet drops on our switches for specific AV devices but I need to know the utilization percentage.

I am trying to figure out how to find Port Utilization of a specific Interface on my Cisco Switches. Or Utilization percentage, whichever way to word it.

Attached you will find a screenshot of one of my interfaces that I am trying to find the utilization of, I did show interface the specific port, to see.

Would it be the txload? I'm unsure of where to look.

I've done a few commands to see if I can decipher it but again, not sure if I am using the right ones.

I've done 'show controllers utilization'. Any guidance in finding utilization percentage would be great. Thank you!

[balaji.bandi]

23 drops not a big drops comparing to 1G ports

same command end use human readable, it will give you more information.

packet drop where from where to where?

[Joseph W. Doherty · Accepted solution]

"Would it be the txload?"

Yes, for transmission.  Yours is 58/255 = (about) 23% (over a five minute period)

As you only had 23 drops with 11,076,900,321 output packets, your drop percentage is nearly zero.  That, and with the small (for a gig interface) egress queue of 40 packets, means it's very, very unlikely the interface is adverse to your traffic.

BTW, interface utilization, especially over a five minute period can be very misleading and also especially when dealing with real-time traffic, which your AV might also comprise.

[MHM Cisco World]

3800#show platform qos queue stats gigabitEthernet x

check which Queue have packet drop