WAN Insights

Welcome to WAN Insights! ThousandEyes WAN Insights allows you to proactively optimize your network in order to improve users’ quality of experience on your Cisco SD-WAN. The goal is to improve long-term end-user experience for critical business applications such as Office365 and collaborative services such as Voice and Webex.

WAN Insights is available through the ThousandEyes user interface, with specific integration points into Cisco vAnalytics and Cisco vManage. Upon successful onboarding of vAnalytics network telemetry data, WAN Insights analyzes application data flow records from all routers in the SD-WAN fabric. It then generates path recommendations for application categories that are already defined in vManage, with the capability to add your custom types of application traffic as well.

Key Topics

• WAN Insights Quick Start: Read this section to activate WAN Insights and realize immediate value.

• Introducing WAN Insights: Product overview, value-add, key components, and system prerequisites.

• WAN Insights Terminology and Reference: A glossary of terms used within WAN Insights.

• WAN Insights Technical Overview: A deeper dive into how WAN Insights functions, including key concepts and data flows.

• WAN Insights User Interface: Descriptions of each screen, and how to interpret the data as presented on the user interface.

• Common Tasks: How-to guidance for common tasks such as creating custom application categories, setting up email notifications, and managing WAN Insights users within your organization.

This documentation is written for seasoned network and IT teams, in particular individuals who already possess expertise in Cisco SD-WAN networking and the use of Cisco’s Application-Aware Routing (AAR) feature. For more information see Audience Assumptions.