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Network traffic monitoring is the process of analyzing the traffic that flows across a network by keeping track of its source its destination and the applications, ports, and protocols involved in the conversation.

Busy/heavy traffic: Traffic that consumes a high amount of bandwidth.

Non-real-time traffic: Traffic consumed by an application for day-to-day activities.

Real-time traffic: Traffic that is time-sensitive and requires high-quality data transmission.

During data transmission, traffic data from the source gets divided into individual packets and is reassembled at the destination later. The data transferred is comprised of packets, which are the fundamental units of network data transfers.

Network traffic is the total data moving through a network from a source to a destination at a given point in time. Overview of network traffic monitoring What is network traffic?