You need to identify microburst traffic in the network that is causing packet drops on your data center switches.
Which two tools should be used in this scenario?
Microbursts can briefly exhaust a switch port or queue buffer and cause drops without producing sustained high average utilization. Port buffer monitoring identifies abnormal peak buffer occupancy and associated drops, while port mirroring provides copies of the affected traffic for flow or packet analysis. Juniper documents peak buffer utilization as a key microburst indicator and describes port mirroring as copying interface traffic to a monitoring device for analysis.
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