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title: "Viewing Data Flow Analytics"
slug: "viewing-data-flow-analytics-tg"
tags: ["5.5"]
updated: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
published: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/viewing-data-flow-analytics-tg"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Viewing Data Flow Analytics

To open the Data Flow page, select Analytics -> Data Flow in the left navigation menu.

The Data Flow page shows aggregated IO paths from the initiating user through to the target view, showing which points along the paths the most I/O flowed through, including users, IAM roles or NQNs, hosts, virtual IPs and virtual IP pools, CNodes, views and block volumes.

The paths shown at any time are the paths with the highest averages in the metrics selected as the sorting criteria. IO paths are aggregated over a selected time period and the metrics are calculated as averages.

The data flow paths displayed are based on IO from all supported client access protocols. It can be filtered to show a specific client access protocol exclusively.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> The following prefix labels can be used to distinguish between different types of names in the Users/NQNs column: U for user, IAM for an IAM role, H for an NQN.