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# Traffic Insights Configuration Guide

The articles in this section explain the steps necessary to fully configure Traffic Insights for your organization, from enabling forwarders on your Enterprise Agents to allow-listing your traffic monitors to ensuring your setup meets our minimum flow record requirements.

## Configuration Requirements

![Minimum and recommended configuration steps](/files/38OG5eYgB39aFfkjSwHh)

Traffic Insights minimum configuration requirements consist of:

* Enabling a ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent as a forwarder so it can accept Traffic Insights data.
* Configuring and allow-listing a network flow traffic monitor to send the correct record formats to ThousandEyes.

You can also:

* Conduct SNMP discovery of the devices that will send flow data so you can view and filter by device names (recommended).
* Configure subnet tags inside of ThousandEyes to further enhance your data views and filters (optional).
* Send data to an external collector (optional).
* Create custom applications to classify proprietary or internal traffic that standard application recognition tools cannot identify (optional).

Before you begin any configuration, see [Traffic Insights System Requirements](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-system-requirements) for information about the minimum requirements of the components configured in the steps above.

To complete the configuration steps in this documentation, you need access to:

* Your own enterprise network configuration systems, and/or the network device command-line interface (CLI).
* The ThousandEyes platform and user interface, with an Organization Admin or Account Admin role (see [Role-Based Access, Explained](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/user-management/authorization/rb-access-control/role-based-access-control-explained) for more information about roles).