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Mist Premium Analytics Dashboards

Juniper Mist™ Premium Analytics is an advanced, cloud-based analytics service that provides enterprises with end-to-end network observability. You can gain insights from client to cloud that enable you to effectively identify and solve any issues. You can use client and traffic utilization data for better planning, resource management, and network security.

Premium Analytics allows you to run reports over data sets at a more granular level and can store up to 13 months (or more) of data. This feature extends observability of historical data beyond the 30 days available with the standard Juniper Mist analytics service, enabling users to perform long-term historical time series analyses of network, applications, visitor, and employee behavior to enhance business decision-making

Watch the video for additional details—Juniper Mist Premium Analytics Overview.

Features and Benefits

  • Stores up to 13 months+ of data
  • Enables report scheduling
  • Supports ingestion of Mist AI-driven data
  • Supports optional 3rd-party data ingestion
  • Provides ability to mix and match data sets
  • Offers simple, easy-to-use, preconfigured dashboards

View Available Dashboards in Premium Analytics

With Juniper Mist Premium Analytics, you can gain insights across the network by viewing different dashboards—wireless, wired, location, WAN, and others—that provide data visualization.
  1. In the left menu of the Juniper Mist portal, click Analytics > Premium Analytics.
    Figure 1: Access Premium Analytics Access Premium Analytics

    Table 1 shows available dashboards in Premium Analytics.

    Table 1: Premium Analytics Dashboards
    Category Dashboards Insights Available on Dashboards
    Wireless AP Insights

    AP-specific insights for traffic and clients

    RF Health and Utilization
    • Channel Utilization analytics for RF bands
    • Interference, Neighbor count and co-channel metrics
    • -RM and DFS information
    Wireless Client Events
    • Organization wide client-failure analysis
    • Failure types and distribution by Site, WLAN, AP, Client type, OS
    • Failure analysis for clients, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), authorization, association, and roaming
    Wireless Client Sessions
    • Client sessions and guest session details and trends
    • Session distribution views for top APs, WLANs, Client OS's
    Wireless IDS

    Long term storage of Rogue and IDS events

    Wireless Network Insights
    • Organization wide SLE and traffic trends

    • Client distribution by device-type, OS, 802.11 protocols

    • Traffic and application insights by SSID and clients

    • Busiest AP and SSID

    Executive Summary - Wireless Usage of the wireless network, client devices, applications, and traffic
    Wireless Site Comparison

    Comparison of up to three sites or site groups across various wireless metrics such as SLE, client, traffic, and application

    Wired PoE Switch Details Switch-specific insights for Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports, power draw and consumption trends
    Sustainability Analytics PoE usage, ports, power draw, PoE budget (total power output available to PoE ports), and consumption trends.
    Switch Insights AP-specific insights for traffic and clients
    Wired Network Insights
    • Switch SLE metrics
    • Traffic metrics of wired network by site, switch, port, and VLAN
    • Port utilization trends
    Wired Site Comparison Comparison of up to three sites across various wired metrics such as SLEs, interfaces, traffic, and PoE
    WAN
    • WAN Network Insights-SRX
    • WAN SLE metrics
    • Application distribution by users
    • Traffic metrics by site, devices, and zones
    • WAN Network Insights-SSR
    • WAN SLE metrics
    • Application distribution by users
    • Traffic metrics by site and devices
    WAN Security - SSR IDP and URL events
    Events Wireless Client Events
    • Organization-wide client-failure analysis
    • Failure types and distribution by site, wireless LAN (WLAN), AP, client type, OS
    • Detailed failure analysis
    • Information about DHCP, DNS, authorization, association, and roaming
    Location Engagement Analytics
    • Visitor footfall metrics and trends
    • Dwell time metrics and trends
    • Zone ranking and zone movement analytics
    Occupancy Analytics
    • Occupancy and dwell-time details of sites, floors, and zones
    • Details about wireless functions, Bluetooth Low energy (BLE) tags, and BLE app clients
    • Visitor footfall metrics
    Occupancy Analytics Zone Zone-specific occupancy insights on device trends, device visits, and dwell times
    Proximity Tracing and Occupancy Compliance User journey map and proximity tracing
    Other Audit
    • Long-term storage of audit logs
    • Top actions grouped by type and user
    Inventory
    • Organization-wide inventory report
    • Firmware and model details
  2. Select one of the above dashboards to see the dashboard in a separate tab.

Premium Analytics Dashboard Overview

Juniper Mist Premium Analytics provides easy-to-use dashboards that you can use to generate a report by specifying some criteria and using filters. You can use the report to identify issues and trends and generate, schedule, and deliver customized reports through e-mails.

Figure 2 shows a Premium Analytics dashboard, which displays wireless client sessions.

Figure 2: Premium Analytics Dashboard Overview Premium Analytics Dashboard Overview
Figure 3: Use Premium Analytics Dashboard Options Use Premium Analytics Dashboard Options

Table 2 shows you the different options that you can use on the dashboard to work with the report.

Table 2: Premium Analytics Dashboards Options
Dashboard Options Description
Filter Depending on the analytics dashboard that you select, the available filters are site, AP, SSID, and other network elements. On all the dashboards, you can specify a period for which you want to generate an analytics report.
Dashboard actions

On the top-right corner of the page, you can see the dashboard actions menu (ellipsis icon). You can use the menu options to perform various actions for the report at the dashboard level such as:

  • Clear the cache and refresh the page.

  • Download a site comparison report.

  • Schedule a delivery of a report.

  • Reset filters.

Tile actions

On the top-right corner of each tile, you can see the tile actions menu (ellipsis icon). You can use the menu options to perform tile-level actions such as:

  • Download data.

  • View the tile-specific data in an expanded or full-screen view.

  • Clear the cache and refresh the page.

Column options On the top-right corner of each column in a tile, you can see the column options menu. You can use the menu options to perform tile-level actions such as:
  • Freeze column heading.
  • Copy values.
  • Autosize and resize all columns.

Download Dashboards Reports

You can download the entire dashboard report or schedule delivery of the report to contacts. To download the report:
  1. Click the Dashboard Actions menu (ellipsis icon) and select Download
    Figure 4: Download Dashboard Report Download Dashboard Report
    The Download Report window appears.
    Figure 5: Report Download Window Report Download Window
  2. Select the options shown in Table 3 before you download the report.
    Table 3: Download Dashboard Report
    Options Descriptions
    Format Select PDF or CSV.
    Paper Size Select the paper size for the report. The available options include page fit to dashboard, tabloid, letter, legal, A3, A4, and more.
    Expand tables to show all rows (Optional) Select the option to view all the rows of the table.
    Arrange dashboard tiles in a single column (Optional) Select the option to view all the items in a single column.
    Open in Browser Click the option to open the report in a new browser. You can download and save the report on your local storage device.

Schedule Report Generation and Delivery

You can create a schedule to run the report at regular intervals and deliver the report by e-mail.

To schedule report generation and delivery:

  1. On the dashboard, click the Dashboard Actions menu (ellipsis icon) and select Schedule Delivery.
    The Schedule Delivery window appears.
    Figure 6: Schedule Report Delivery Schedule Report Delivery
  2. Select the options and complete the fields shown in Table 4 before you download the report.
    Table 4: Schedule Delivery of Report Settings
    Settings Description
    Schedule Name Enter the name of the report. Specify a name that indicates the purpose of the report.
    Recurrence Select the frequency at which you want to generate the report. You can select one of these options: months, weeks, daily, hours, minutes, specific months, specific days, and datagroup update.
    Time Set a time to generate the report.
    Destination Select e-mail (default option) as the destination.
    Email Addresses Enter the e-mail address to send the report.
    Format Select one of these formats: PDF, CSV, and PNG.
    Filters Use filters—report period and sites— to generate a concise report. You can select up to three sites.
    Advanced Options Use the following advanced options to modify the report:
    • Custom Message—Add message to include in the e-mail.

    • Include Links—Include HTML link to view the report in a browser.

    • Expand tables to show all rows—View all the rows of the table.

    • Arrange dashboard tiles in a single column—View all items in a single column

    • Paper size—Select the paper size for the report. The available options include page fit to dashboard, tabloid, letter, legal, A3, A4, and more.

    • Delivery timezone—Select the appropriate time zone from the list to send the report.

  3. Click Save.
    A window with a scheduler and the attached report and e-mail appears. You can edit, delete, or duplicate the report.
  4. Click Send Now to send the report and click Done to close the window.

Download Tile-Specific Report

You can expand, download, or view a visualization for specific tiles within the dashboard. In the tile, click the tile actions icon on the right-side corner of the tile as shown in the figure:

Figure 7: Tile-specific Report Options Tile-specific Report Options

You can perform the following tasks:

  • Download data

  • Autosize all columns

  • Reset all column widths

  • View (expanded or full-screen)

  • Clear cache and refresh

To download the tile-specific details, complete the following steps:

  1. From the drop-down list on the top-right of a tile, select Download Data.
  2. Select the options, which you see in Table 4, according to your requirement before you download the report.
    Table 5: Schedule Report Delivery of Settings
    Settings Description
    Format Select one of the following formats:
    • Excel Spreadsheet

    • CSV

    • JSON

    • Markdown

    • PNG (Image Visualizations)

    • HTML

    • TXT (tab-separated values)

    (Optional) Use Advanced Options to modify the report according to your requirements.
    Results
    • With visualizations options applied—Select the visualization options that you want to apply on the report. The options include relabeling columns, hiding totals, or adding conditional formatting.
    • As displayed in the data table—Generate a report without any visualization changes compared to the table that you see on the screen.
    Data Values
    • Formatted—Report with the same format that you see on the screen.
    • Unformatted—Report in the plain text format (raw, unstyled state of the data). This format excludes special characters, rounded off numbers, and so on.
    Number of rows to include
    • Current result table—Report with the same number of rows that you see on the screen.

    • Custom—Report with more rows than the results in the screen.

    • All results—Report with all rows. (not supported)

    Open in Browser Report appears in a new browser. You can download and save the report on your local storage device.
  3. Click Download to save the report to your local computer.