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# Allow-Listing and Managing Traffic Monitors

Use the **Traffic Monitors** screen in **Traffic Insights > Settings** to allow-list and manage the network devices that export flow records to your forwarders.

The screen lists the traffic monitors detected from incoming flow data and lets you review their status and activity, allow or disallow monitors, edit details such as site and geolocation, and delete monitors.

Before you can allow-list a traffic monitor, you need to configure it to export supported flow records to a forwarder. The monitor appears in the list after flow data begins reaching the forwarder.

For information about configuring traffic monitors and flow records, see the [Traffic Insights Setup Guide](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-configuration-guide).

Allow-listing traffic monitors enables the forwarder to recognize and accept the network flow data from the newly configured traffic monitors. The forwarder needs the allow-list to accept flow data from your traffic monitors.

**Important:** Network flow data must already be streaming to the forwarder in order for the traffic monitor's network device to appear as an option for allow-listing. You need to allow-list at least one traffic monitor per forwarder.

## Allow-Listing Traffic Monitors

Go to **Traffic Insights > Settings > Traffic Monitors** to allow-list your monitors. The **Traffic Monitors** screen shows the network devices you have configured as traffic monitors and which are successfully exporting network flows.

![Allow-listing options](https://1112912342-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-M4QARF6s57qxMrOHDTZ%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-68a36931d847d97e23cbf52ad138a191bf7a7476%2Fviews-settings-7.png?alt=media)

You can allow-list your monitors in one of three ways:

1. To allow-list all monitors, click **Allow All** in the message bar at the top of the screen.
2. To allow-list a selection, check the boxes next to the monitors you want to allow and click **Allow** at the bottom of the screen.
3. To allow-list an individual monitor, click the ellipsis on an agent's row, and select **Allow**.

## Viewing and Managing Your Traffic Monitors

Once Traffic Insights setup is complete, the **Traffic Monitors** screen in **Traffic Insights > Settings** displays only the network devices you have configured as traffic monitors in the time frame chosen; choose from the last 2 hours up to the last 2 days.

The cards above the table (visible when flow consolidation is turned on) display overview statistics about the data onscreen (see [Flow Consolidation](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-views-and-settings/flow-consolidation) for more information):

* The left-most card shows you what percentage of your monitors are allowlisted.
* The right-most card shows you the average FPS (flow records per second) rate for all your traffic monitors in the chosen timeframe, as well as what percentage of that FPS rate is from flows with multiple records. See [Traffic Insights FPS Monitoring](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-management/traffic-insights-fps-monitoring) for information about FPS rates.

Filter results by:

* Network Device IP
* Network Device Name
* Enterprise Agent
* Site
* Status

### Understanding the Traffic Monitor Table

* **Network Device IP:** Identifies the network device that is acting as a traffic monitor and is already sending flow data to an Enterprise Agent.
* **Network Device Name:** Optional field, if a device name was configured on the device itself and SNMP device discovery has been completed. See [Enriching Device Data](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-configuration-guide/discovering-devices) for more information.
* **Enterprise Agent:** The name of the Enterprise Agent used as the forwarder as configured in [Configuring Forwarders](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-configuration-guide/configuring-forwarders).
* **Site:** Optional user-defined site name where this traffic monitor is located. Open each monitor's edit panel on the **Traffic Monitors** screen to edit.
* **Geo Location:** Optional country and region where this traffic monitor is located. Defaults to the location of the forwarder the monitor exports to. Open each monitor's edit panel on the **Traffic Monitors** screen to edit.
* **Status:** Either Allowed or Not Allowed.
* **Last Active (UTC):** Date and time that this traffic monitor sent flow data to ThousandEyes.
* **Total FPS (Avg/Peak):** Total flow records per second sent from the traffic monitor and forwarded to ThousandEyes. Shows average and peak values.
* **Consolidated FPS (Avg/Peak)** (only visible when flow consolidation is turned on): Flow records per second for records associated with the same conversation and already reported by other traffic monitors. Conversations associated with multiple monitors are stitched together (consolidated) to appear as one conversation entry to ease data visualization and analysis. Shows average and peak values. See [Flow Consolidation](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-views-and-settings/flow-consolidation) for more information.
* **Unsupported FPS (Avg/Peak):** Flow records per second sent from the traffic monitor to the forwarder and discarded due to unsupported format. Shows average and peak values.
* **... (ellipsis):** Click to Edit (and add site location or geolocation), Allow, Disallow, or Delete each row.