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Alert on hostnames in Top XX Receivers\Transmitters

Greetings All,

So I was able to detect some anomalous network traffic using NTA today.

A PC was the receiver of an unusually large amount of data.

It showed up on my Top XX Conversations as well as my Top XX receivers

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All my PC's have the same naming convention. Hostname starts with PPWKS.

Is there a way to configure an alert that can trigger when a top transmitter or receiver is a PC? i.e. match the hostname?

I am not sure if I can alert on hostnames

I can start with the built-in report "High Receive Percent Utilization with Top Talkers" which allows alerting based on a % of the Interface, but this isn't exactly what I want.

Do I need custom SQL?

  • This is not a feature at the moment. NTA has 2 alerts only.

    1. Interface utilization alert with Top talkers

    2. CBQoS alerts.

    But NTA does not have the alert - to trigger when an endpoint generated this amount of ingress or egress data.