Description

Description
Kick‑start your NetFlow/IPFIX practice with a structured bootcamp that gets you from empty dashboards to confident baseline charts. You will learn how to collect, parse, and normalize flow records from routers, firewalls, and virtual taps without breaking production. The module shows where to place exporters, how to set sampling realistically, and how to negotiate template IDs that change mid‑stream. Hands‑on labs walk you through building a reference schema that captures the essential fields for security, ops, and finance teams. You will create golden-hour baselines for top talkers, top conversations, and protocol mixes, then compare weekdays to weekends to spot anomalies. We include ready‑to‑use dashboards, a checklist for exporter health, and a runbook for the first 24 hours of deployment. Troubleshooting sections cover packet loss, template timeouts, clock skew, and how to tell exporter bugs from collector misconfigurations. By the end, you will have a working pipeline and a baseline pack that lets stakeholders agree on what “normal” actually looks like. The result is faster investigations, cleaner change windows, and a shared language for traffic behavior.
Format
Step‑by‑step videos, collector configuration examples, baseline dashboard pack, exporter health checklist, first‑24‑hours runbook
Duration
4 hours self‑paced
What You’ll Learn
– Exporter placement & sampling
– IPFIX templates & schema
– Baseline charts that matter
– Troubleshooting flow gaps
– First‑day runbook
– Cross‑team alignment
Target Audience
Network engineers, SREs, and platform teams launching flow analytics for the first time

Videos + config examples + dashboards + checklists + runbook

4 hours

– Exporter placement
– IPFIX schema
– Baselines
– Troubleshooting
– Runbooks
– Alignment

Network engineers, SREs, platform teams