Internal and external traffic by datacenter
Classification combines your IP ranges, datacenter boundaries and measurement point.
Register ranges for each datacenter
Register the IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes your operation uses and assign each to the correct datacenter. A single address represents only that host; it does not replace registering the full range used by your services.
When traffic is internal
Under the Cloutrix policy, traffic between your registered ranges is internal when it remains within the same datacenter. Addresses outside those ranges and communication between datacenters are external. Accurate classification depends on the policy in effect at collection time.
Understand each filter
Internal and external show the categories separately. Combined adds these two IP traffic categories. NIC total uses interface counters and may include non-IP frames, so it does not necessarily equal combined traffic.
Know the observation boundary
The eBPF observer classifies traffic crossing monitored host interfaces. Virtual machine traffic that stays inside a bridge may never cross the uplink. Separation is not retroactive: historical NIC counters do not include the addresses required to reclassify past traffic.