> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-management/managing-forwarders.md).

# Managing Forwarders

The **Forwarders** screen in **Traffic Insights > Settings** displays the Enterprise Agents that you have enabled as Traffic Insights forwarders. Use this screen to review forwarding activity, edit listening ports, clear statistics, and manage optional external collectors.

## Viewing and Managing Your Forwarders

Now that you have forwarding enabled for Traffic Insights, you can keep track of the Enterprise Agents you use for forwarding via two methods.

### View Your Forwarders Via Agent Settings

1. Go to **Network & App Synthetics > Agent Settings**.
2. Select the **Enterprise Agents** screen.
3. On the **Agents** tab, open the **Add a filter** dropdown.
4. Select **Traffic Insights**.

   ![The Add a filter dropdown menu](https://1112912342-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-M4QARF6s57qxMrOHDTZ%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-7711b3ad3a0601d552eb115016b0581748af4ec5%2Fconfig-guide-10.png?alt=media)
5. Select **Enabled**.

   ![Select Enabled](https://1112912342-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-M4QARF6s57qxMrOHDTZ%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-537648b94b79b0e02c3515a28b11ea305400b41c%2Fconfig-guide-11.png?alt=media)

   * All devices enabled as forwarders for Traffic Insights are displayed.

### Viewing and Managing Your Forwarders Via the Forwarders Screen

The **Forwarders** screen in **Traffic Insights > Settings** displays only the Enterprise Agents you have enabled for forwarding.

![Forwarders screen](https://1112912342-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-M4QARF6s57qxMrOHDTZ%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-c047fef7add502469dedaf5d7fbdd9e15f093911%2Fviews-settings-8.png?alt=media)

Once Traffic Insights setup is complete, the **Forwarders** screen allows you to:

* View traffic flowing through each Enterprise Agent in the time frame chosen; choose from the last 2 hours up to the last 2 days.
* Filter results by Agent Name or External Collector.
* **Clear Stats** to refresh collection of all forwarder data to restart from now.

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 the average FPS (flow records per second) rate for all your forwarders in the chosen time frame, 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.
* The two right cards show total throughput in bps going in and out of all your forwarders in the same time frame.

The screen also has an **External Collector Management** button that you can use to configure sending flows from your forwarders to another collector besides ThousandEyes. To set up an external collector, see [Forwarding to External Collectors](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/traffic-insights/traffic-insights-configuration-guide/connecting-external-collectors).

### Understanding the Forwarder Table

* **Agent Name:** The ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent name.
* **Listening Ports:** TCP and UDP listening ports, editable via the ellipsis, below.
* **External Collector:** Optional; enable on the **Edit** panel via the ellipsis, below.
* **UDP Ingress:** Kbps and packets per second.
* **TCP Ingress:** Kbps and packets per second.
* **Dropped Events:** Number of dropped packet(s).
* **Egress:** Kbps.
* **External Collector Mirrored:** Kbps.
* **Total FPS (Avg/Peak):** Total flow records per second sent from the forwarder 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 reported by multiple 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 received by the forwarder and discarded due to unsupported format. Shows average and peak values.
* **... (ellipsis):** Click to **Edit** or **Clear Stats** for each row.