Network capacity planning tools
Make smarter infrastructure investments and shift IT efforts from reactive support to strategic planning with Auvik’s bandwidth trends
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Key use cases of our network capacity planning tool
Poor capacity planning often leads to costly overspending or urgent network upgrades when limits are unexpectedly reached. Auvik’s network capacity planning tools provide continuous visibility and actionable insights to help you optimize bandwidth, prevent bottlenecks, and justify infrastructure investments with confidence.
Track bandwidth usage trends over time to inform capacity planning
Relying on point-in-time snapshots and sporadic monitoring creates critical blind spots that often result in costly and misguided infrastructure investments. Auvik’s network capacity planning tool continuously polls your devices via SNMP to automatically collect bandwidth utilization data from every interface across your infrastructure, building comprehensive historical records of network performance over time.
Our platform’s long-term retention of SNMP interface statistics enables deep trend analysis, empowering you to distinguish typical usage patterns from anomalous traffic spikes that could otherwise distort planning decisions. With intuitive charts offering device- and interface-level insights, you can clearly identify seasonal fluctuations, growth trends, and usage cycles, arming you to proactively anticipate future capacity needs rather than scramble to address unexpected shortfalls.
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Receive real-time alerts when network resources near capacity limits
By the time users report slow applications, your network is likely already experiencing capacity-related issues that impact productivity and business operations. Auvik continuously monitors bandwidth consumption, instantly detecting traffic surges and sustained high utilization before they affect end users.
Configurable thresholds at both device and interface levels trigger alerts once utilization reaches your specified limits. Our platform continuously tracks interface utilization and automatically alerts you when congestion develops, giving you advance warning before performance deteriorates. These proactive alerts are delivered via email, dashboard notifications, and integrations with platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and your existing ticketing systems, such as PagerDuty and ServiceNow, providing the early warning you need to prevent capacity issues from disrupting critical services.
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Generate visual capacity reports to justify infrastructure upgrades
With Auvik’s network capacity planning software, you get detailed visual reports showing bandwidth utilization over time, with clear charts and graphs that translate technical data into business-relevant insights about capacity consumption and emerging constraints.
Auvik’s dashboards highlight current usage against maximum capacity, identifying exactly where infrastructure investment will have the greatest impact. Pre-built Microsoft Power BI templates provide executive-ready reports that correlate bandwidth trends with business performance, making it easy to demonstrate how capacity limitations affect operations. These comprehensive capacity planning reports show precisely when and where your network will hit critical thresholds, building stronger cases for the infrastructure upgrades your growing organization requires.
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Identify and address top bandwidth applications and top talkers before they cause bottlenecks
Bandwidth hogs lurk in the shadows of most networks, quietly consuming resources until sudden performance degradation forces emergency troubleshooting sessions. Auvik’s network planning tools leverage machine learning and traffic classification to automatically surface the biggest bandwidth consumers, whether that’s streaming services like Netflix, cloud storage sync from Dropbox, or collaboration platforms like Slack.
Real-time visibility into source addresses, destination endpoints, active conversations, and port usage reveals exactly which devices and applications are driving consumption patterns. You can drill down to individual device usage and generate ranked lists of applications by bandwidth consumption, allowing for better targeted optimization efforts. Our TrafficInsights capability continuously monitors for excessive usage that threatens essential business services, allowing you to address resource-hungry applications to avoid them creating network-wide bottlenecks.
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Ensure performance for VoIP, video, and latency-sensitive services
Voice calls that drop mid-conversation and video conferences that freeze during important presentations aren’t just technical annoyances; they’re business disruptions that damage productivity and professional relationships. Auvik actively measures latency and jitter, providing a real-time assessment of conditions affecting time-sensitive applications.
Specialized monitoring tracks the packet loss, delay, and jitter metrics that determine call quality and video performance. Configurable alert thresholds warn you when network conditions threaten service quality, enabling preventive action so users don’t have a chance to experience problems. Through continuous SNMP polling and device API data collection, our network capacity tools establish performance baselines for vital services while tracking usage trends that inform capacity decisions. This way, you can make sure your most important applications maintain consistent quality even during peak network demand.
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Learn more about network capacity planning at Auvik
What is network capacity planning?
Network capacity planning is the continuous analysis of bandwidth usage patterns and growth trends to determine when and where infrastructure upgrades are needed. It helps prevent performance bottlenecks and costly emergency upgrades by providing data-driven insights into current utilization and future network requirements.
What are the benefits of capacity planning?
Capacity planning prevents unexpected network bottlenecks and eliminates guesswork when making infrastructure investment decisions. It helps you optimize spending by identifying exactly where upgrades are needed and provides concrete data to justify budget requests for network improvements.
Can Auvik alert me when bandwidth usage approaches critical levels?
Yes, Auvik provides configurable bandwidth utilization thresholds at device and interface levels that trigger alerts when usage reaches your defined percentages. You can get these alerts through email, dashboard notifications, and integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and ticketing systems to make sure you are immediately notified of developing capacity issues.
How does Auvik help identify which applications or devices are using the most bandwidth?
Auvik uses machine learning and traffic classification to automatically identify bandwidth-consuming applications like Netflix, Dropbox, and Slack across your infrastructure. Our platform provides real-time charts showing top source addresses, destination addresses, and port usage, allowing you to drill down to individual device consumption patterns.
How can identifying top bandwidth consumers help with capacity planning?
Identifying bandwidth hogs lets you address excessive usage before it creates network-wide bottlenecks and helps you understand which applications drive your capacity requirements. This visibility enables targeted optimization and ensures capacity planning decisions are based on actual usage patterns rather than estimated maximums.
Does Auvik provide historical bandwidth usage data?
Yes, Auvik automatically collects and retains extensive time-series data from devices supporting NetFlow v5, NetFlow v9, J-Flow, IPFIX, or sFlow protocols. It then provides detailed historical charts showing bandwidth utilization trends over days, weeks, months, or years, so you can identify seasonal patterns, growth trajectories, and usage cycles over extended periods.
Is Auvik’s bandwidth analysis suitable for multi-site or distributed networks?
Yes, Auvik automatically collects traffic data across multiple sites and vendors through a single centralized interface. Our software provides unified bandwidth analysis and capacity planning across your entire distributed infrastructure without requiring separate monitoring tools at each location.
Can Auvik help improve performance for latency-sensitive applications like VoIP or video?
Yes, Auvik actively measures latency and jitter using ICMP echo requests to monitor network conditions affecting real-time applications. It configures alerts specifically for latency and jitter thresholds that impact VoIP and video quality, enabling proactive capacity adjustments before service degradation occurs.