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Statistics

The Statistics tab answers “who are the top N?” — the busiest hosts, ports, or protocols for a given time window, ranked and totalled, rather than a flow-by-flow list.

Statistics tab with real results

Running a query

Same pattern as Flows: set your filters, click Process data, and the exact nfdump command used is shown above the results so you know precisely what was measured.

What can you rank by?

The Statistic for dropdown is the key control — it decides what each row of the results represents:

Statistic forAnswers
Flow RecordsTop individual flows
Any / Src / Dst IP addressBusiest hosts, overall or by direction
Any / Src / Dst portBusiest ports
Any / Src / Dst ASBusiest autonomous systems (if AS data is present)
Any / In / Out interfaceBusiest router interfaces
ProtoTraffic split by protocol
Src / Dst TOSTraffic split by ToS/DSCP marking

Combine with Order by (rank by bytes, packets, or flows) and Top records (how many rows to return) to get, say, “top 10 destination IPs by bytes in the last week.”

Same filters as Flows

Sources, nfdump filter, min/max bytes work identically to the Flows tab — anything you can filter there, you can filter here, just aggregated into ranked totals instead of a flat list.

Clicking an IP address in the results opens the same lookup modal as Flows — see Looking Up an IP.