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title: "ControlUp Network Impact & Bandwidth Usage"
slug: "controlup-network-impact-bandwidth-usage"
updated: 2025-08-31T13:27:45Z
published: 2025-08-31T13:27:45Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/controlup-network-impact-bandwidth-usage"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# ControlUp Network Impact & Bandwidth Usage

The ControlUp Consoleand Monitor retrieve data from servers, hypervisors, workstations, user sessions, etc. This action can impact your network bandwidth, though not dramatically as we successfully stick to a very low usage with our ControlUp Agent.

This is the average network traffic communication information -  
Single Agent for Console\Monitor communication channel - 1KBps.
This roughly means that a  single Console will consume the following bandwidth:

* Console connected to 100  agents- 100KBps
 * Console connected to 1,000 agents- 1MBps
 * Console connected to 10,000 agents- 10Mbps  

For example, running 5 instances of the {{variable.ControlUp_Real-Time_Console}} on a single RDS server, while each Console is connected to 1,000 agents, causes a total bandwidth usage on this server of 5MBps.

In addition, to optimize performance we suggest setting a data collector for your monitor. [Click here](/tim-reorg/docs/performance-optimization-for-controlup-s-real-time-console-monitor#3-set-up-a-dedicated-data-collector) to learn more about how to set up a dedicated data collector.

The extensions (Hypervisors, EUC...) also consume bandwidth but compared to 1,000  agents  that should be negligible - around 100-200KBps when working in large environments.

Disabling the Flat Process Views can reduce network  traffic between the {{variable.ControlUp_Agent}} to the Console\Monitor by up to 50%. Although processes are available to Monitor when you focus on a specific computer as demonstrated in the screenshot below:

![Processws View](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/3600004179252018-02-1214-44-48.jpg)

![advanced settings page](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/3600004261492018-02-1214-28-53.jpg)