Mist Telemetry

The Mist dashboard contains a lot of valuable information and insights for network automation, troubleshooting, and debugging. It can also be extended into other IT systems through the usage of the extensive webhook, websocket, and API systems available within Mist. Every single action in the GUI has a corresponding API call. The first part of […]

PCAPs and PANDAS

In a previous post I reviewed how you can use EDA techniques to programmatically pull data from the Mist dashboard for large-scale analysis. But what if you don’t have access to the Mist dashboard – or if you need to work with a raw PCAP that has been provided? Packets don’t lie but a picture […]

Learning ML

Or, in other words, learning how to learn how machines are learning. I’ve spent the last two years going on a self-guided learning journey to better understand AI/ML and how it can be creatively applied to the networking field. There are some great resources out there …. but there are also a LOT of resources […]

Networking EDA

Interesting in troubleshooting your network programmatically? One of the more valuable things I’ve learned while brushing up on AI/ML is exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques. Here’s an example of using Jupyter notebooks and API calls to slice and dice through your production data to help make informed decisions. Problem Statement:A critical class of network clients […]