Graphing Traffic with CloudShark
We’re very pleased to announce new capabilities in CloudShark! We’ve been working hard over the past couple weeks to introduce a new graphical view of your capture files. They say a picture is worth 1000 words, so here we go:
We have 3 graphing views right now. One user-specified and two default graphs that we feel would be useful with the widest variety of captures. The defaults are for the difference between TCP and UDP traffic, and the other shows IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.
The user-specified graph is a little different though. In CloudShark, you can specify a Display Filter to limit which packets are shown in the summary view. When a Display Filter is applied, the first graph shows the traffic matching that filter in blue, and anything that does not match in red.
For example, here is some HTTP traffic while making a voice call in the background.
Hiding and showing a series can be accomplished by clicking on it’s label in the legend. When a series is hidden, the y-axis will scale itself to best display the remaining data. Often, a series might be dwarfed and only appear after hiding others around it.
Head on over to CloudShark, upload your own captures, and give our graphs a try. Let us know how we can make them even better!
