Forwarding Status refers to the action that a router or network device took on a flow or packet stream. Certain devices (including Cisco IOS XR) include a field that indicates which action was taken, such as ACL deny, dropped due to policers on the system, unroutable traffic, or Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED), which can illustrate when congestion issues have caused traffic drops on certain interfaces.

Kentik now supports this “Forwarding Status” field in IPFIX flows for Cisco IOS XR devices, which means that the 6-bit forwarding status code of the flow is now one of the traffic attributes that the Kentik Platform ingests (see table below).

For more information, please see the IOS XR Dimensions topic in our Knowledge Base, or contact our Customer Success team.