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Customers can use these procedures to obtain detailed statistics, including the popular request for Tunnels (loss, latency, jitter and so on), interface and flow statistics.



Note: The process for retrieving CPU and memory stats for each EdgeConnect follows a different process and is not file-based.

### Getting Statistics Time Range

Appliances generate statistics every minute. Each minute, appliances generate statistics of different types in different CSV files. These CSV files are zipped into a single file for convenience. Appliances are also configured to keep only a certain number of these files. Appliances also retain statistics for a specified time period only. The polling systems (Orchestrator or third-party systems) must get their data before these files age out. Most appliances are configured to keep this data for at least a few hours. You can configure the length of time appliances keep data in the Orchestrator.

A poller calls the following REST API to get a range of timestamps for which data is present on the appliance:



This will return the following output:



These two numbers are minute boundaries expressed in standard epoch seconds. This example indicates Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 3:49:00 PM to Monday, April 11, 2022, 3:45:00 PM.

### Polling for a Specific Minute

Once you obtain the time range, you can iterate over every minute (or start from the last minute not yet retrieved). For example:



The API for retrieving a zip file for a specific minute looks like this:



All the file names start with st2- and are followed by a minute timestamp in epoch seconds. The file extension is .tgz

Specific to 9.3, the Statistics ZIP file content contains the following:

  1. tunnel.csv, tunnel_peak.csv, tunnel_v2.txt

  2. interface.csv, interface_peak.csv, interface_v2.txt

  3. flow.csv, flow_peak.csv, flow_v2.txt

  4. dscp.csv, dscp_peak.csv, dscp_v2.txt

  5. tclass.csv, tclass_peak.csv, tclass_v2.txt

  6. shaper.csv, shaper_v2.txt

  7. jitter.csv, mos.csv

  8. zone_pair.csv, zone_pair_v2.txt

  9. boost.csv, boost_v2.txt

  10. drops.csv, drops_v2.txt

  11. drc.csv

  12. ftype.csv, ftype_peak.csv, ftype_v2.txt

  13. interface_overlay.csv, interface_overlay_v2.txt

  14. health_v2.txt

  15. tunnel_availability_v2.txt

  16. interface_availability_v2.txt

  17. appliance_reachability_v2.txt

  18. probe.csv, probe_v2.txt

  19. inet_bkout.csv, inet_bkout_v2.txt

  20. appperf.csv, appperf_v2.txt

These files are in two different formats:

The two formats are .csv and \_v2.txt files is the new format optimized for new StatsCollector. Customers are also recommended to use this file format.