Micro-Burst Monitoring Overview
The micro-burst monitoring feature allows you to monitor traffic on a per-port basis for both ingress and egress ports and to detect unexpected data bursts within a very small time window (micro-seconds). This allows you to detect flows in the network that are at risk of data loss, and that may require extra bandwidth.
A micro-burst occurs when a specific amount of data (in bytes) is exceeded in a given time interval. The micro-burst monitoring feature allows you to specify these limits as absolute values (for data and burst size) or as a percentage of the link speed. When these thresholds are exceeded the system generates a Syslog alarm message.