Service Awareness Overview

The Service Aware feature in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services provides a graphical representation of the services that are active at a given time period. The visualization also shows how the data center fabric is being utilized by these services. You can select a service and drill down to get detailed information about the traffic flow.

An Apstra-managed data center is aware of all the services that are running in the data center. The Service Aware feature provides a graphical representation of all the services running in the site, grouped by throughput, volume, or connections for the site you select. The data displayed on the Service Aware page is refreshed every 15 minutes. To view real-time data, click the On-Demand Data button on the top right of the page.

You can drill down and view details of specific services, view the network topology, identify any node that has an anomaly, and the hosts connected to the device, which are impacted by the anomaly.

Note:

You must configure sFlow in the devices in the data center to view flow data in Apstra Cloud Services.

You can select a set of services and examine how nodes are connected to hosts and how those services traverse through the data center fabric. The total count of events and anomalies affecting the nodes is displayed in the topology diagram.

The Summary tab in the right pane provides a summary of the selected service, providing details such as the number of devices associated with the service, and their roles, and the total number of services.

The search option on the Service Aware page enables you to examine the required service without having to drill down from the topology view. You can directly search for the service and view the connections and flow details for that service. The filter option helps you look into the connections between specific leaf and spine nodes and examine the service traffic by selecting specific services and the layers that you want to view.

You can also compare how the services and endpoints performed during two time periods from the Compare Tab. The flow data collected from the Apstra instance is stored in Apstra Cloud Services for 30 days. You can compare the current performance of the services with the last 30 days' flow data. Select Connection View to view the connections between the devices and the services associated with the devices. Select Flow View to understand how service traffic utilizes the network.

The flow view on the Service Aware page provides information about the flow data between the nodes. A thicker line connecting the devices indicates that more traffic is being exchanged between those devices.

The Service Aware feature thus provides complete view of the data center, providing insights about potential issues in the data center network and their impact on the services.