Cisco : Meraki Announces New MX Endpoint

The Meraki team recently announced a new endpoint: Appliance uplinks usage history. This brand new endpoint provides the usage history of your uplinks for a given timespan. Learn more and engage with the team in the Meraki Community post here.

Using this endpoint, you now have the ability to do capacity monitoring. This allows you to determine if the cause of a problem is due to bandwidth over utilization and helps you measure the usage of your uplink bandwidth. This is a valuable metric when capacity planning across your sites.

The endpoint also gives you the ability to monitor over time, so that you can follow and report on trends over time of increased circuit usage. Ultimately, this allows companies to upgrade and offers sales teams an opportunity to upsell more bandwidth on the circuits.

This new endpoint is available via GET:

/networks/{networkId}/appliance/uplinks/usageHistory

In this example below, Meraki Product Management Architect John Kuchta offers an example of how he uses the query params timespan and resolution to specify both elements of the measurements.

E.g.: GET

/networks/{networkId}/appliance/uplinks/usageHistory?timespan=1200&resolution=600

The response:

[
    {
        'startTime': '2021-07-27T00:00:00Z',
        'endTime': '2021-07-27T00:10:00Z',
        'byInterface': [{'interface': 'wan1',
                'sent':675880268,
                'received':291890075},
            {'interface': 'wan2',
                'sent':763077,
                'received':675740}
        ]
    },
    {'startTime': '2021-07-27T00:10:00Z',
        'endTime': '2021-07-27T00:20:00Z',
        'byInterface':[
            {
                'interface': 'wan1',
                'sent':661133785,
                'received':299136427},
            {
                'interface': 'wan2',
                'sent':767890,
                'received':744360}
        ]
    }
]

Visit the Meraki Community post on this new MX endpoint here! And then, we'd love to hear your stories on how you use this endpoint. Share your experience and tell us what impact it makes on your organization.

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