Aruba Central provides a cloud-based management platform for managing and monitoring Aruba Instant APs, switches, and branch gateways. It offers a comprehensive dashboard that gives insights into network usage, health, and performance metrics. Central allows network administrators to have visibility over their entire network infrastructure from a single pane of glass, including detailed usage statistics, which can be broken down by device, application, and time. This visibility into network usage is crucial for optimizing network performance, planning capacity, and understanding user behavior. Aruba Central's analytics and reporting capabilities enable customers to track and analyze network usage, making it the appropriate product choice for customers wanting to monitor their network usage closely.