Diagnostics of Deployed Devices Based on Network Traffic

摘要

This disclosure is directed to performing diagnostics on deployed devices that use network connectivity to transmit data in response to at least partially automated processes. In some embodiments, a diagnostic entity may monitor network traffic from deployed devices. The diagnostic entity may aggregate at least some of the network traffic to create profiles for at least some of the deployed devices and/or for some activities. The diagnostic entity may then identify outlier devices/activities from observed network behavior of deployed devices and/or activities based on the accessed network traffic and the profiles. The diagnostic entity may generate reports and/or perform or cause some corrective operations in response to identification of the outliers. In various embodiments, the diagnostic entity may predict network usage information for a group of devices and may possibly suggest revisions to service plans and/or usage of the deployed devices based at least partly on the predicted usage.

主权项

1. A method of monitoring devices deployed by third parties based on network activity, the method comprising:
receiving, via one or more computing devices, network traffic between a plurality of deployed devices and respective host devices, the deployed devices being end-point devices that automatically transmit packets of data to respective host devices; aggregating the network traffic to create individual profiles for different groups of the deployed devices, the individual profiles including at least a packet size and a transmission frequency representative of a respective group of the deployed devices; identifying, from the network traffic, a deployed device of the plurality of deployed devices that transmits a packet of data outside of at least one of a threshold size variance of the packet size or a threshold frequency variance in the transmission frequency based at least in part on a respective profile for the deployed device from the individual profiles; and transmitting a notification to at least one of a service provider or a host device of the respective host devices that is associated with the deployed device, the notification identifying the packet of data as being outside of at least one of the threshold size variance of the packet size or the threshold frequency variance in the transmission frequency.