Meraki Insight (MI) is a powerful solution designed to monitor the performance of Internet uplinks and the web-based applications using those uplinks. With the proliferation of web-based and cloud-hosted applications, Meraki Insight is designed to help provide insightful end-to-end visibility to customers for their most important web applications and traffic. Figure 5-14 illustrates how an MX device combines passive data analysis, active endpoint probing, and the power available through cloud-based data review and reporting to present data in MI that can help to significantly reduce troubleshooting efforts and incident resolution times by assisting to pinpoint potential causes of poor performance.
Figure 5-14 Meraki Insight Data Gathering Flow
Pro Tip
Meraki Insight analytics require an additional Dashboard license applied to participating networks.
The Meraki Insight solution is divided into three areas of data monitoring: Web Application Health, WAN Health, and VoIP health. This section provides some general insight into the operation and functionality of Meraki Insight and how it can be used to simplify monitoring the performance of your deployments. All areas of Meraki Insight allow for configuring multiple alerts based on configurable alert conditions, which are briefly covered in the “Insight Alerts” section later in the chapter.