Traffic Analytics and Flow Telemetry are mutually exclusive flow-collection modes within Cisco Nexus Dashboard. Cisco's current Nexus Dashboard documentation identifies both under Flow Collection settings and states that Flow Telemetry must be disabled at the fabric level before Traffic Analytics can be enabled.
Traffic Analytics automatically discovers services and visualizes conversations based primarily on Layer 4 information. It provides visibility into network characteristics such as congestion, latency, and drops, which directly matches the monitoring requirements in the scenario. Cisco's Nexus Dashboard Insights guidance likewise states that if Flow Telemetry is already active, it must first be disabled for the relevant sites before Traffic Analytics is selected.
Delta Analysis is an assurance/comparison capability and is not the mutually exclusive collection mode described here. Connectivity Analysis performs reachability and path-oriented diagnostics. SNMP traps remain a separate event-notification mechanism and are not displaced by Traffic Analytics.
The operational distinction matters because Traffic Analytics and Flow Telemetry use different approaches to flow collection and analysis. An administrator cannot simply enable both collection modes simultaneously and expect them to operate in parallel on the same fabric configuration.
Study Guide Reference: AI Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting — Nexus Dashboard monitoring, telemetry, congestion analysis, latency, and packet-drop visibility.
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