NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT USING HEAT MAPS WITH ACTUAL AND PLANNED /ESTIMATED METRICS

The subject technology provides a single drillable time-series heat map, which combines information of separate network element (e.g., switch, router, server or storage) and relates them together through impact zones to correlate network wide events and the potential impact on the other units in the network. The subject technology also brings together the network and its components (storage, ToR switches, servers, switches, etc.), the distributed application(s) and a heat map controller to proactively communicate with one another to quickly disseminate information such as failures, timeouts, new jobs, etc. Such communication ensures a more predictive picture of the network and enable better adaptive scheduling and routing, which may result in better utilization of resources. The subject technology uses impact zones to make better decisions to place data in the network, and measures network utilization through "Planned Metrics" to provide more realistic usage of network.