Application Categories
This page lists the application categories used by the Netify Agent. The same category information is also available through the Application API.
You can reference the application category ID and category tag in flow expressions to classify, manage, and control traffic at the application layer. These same category values are also exposed in telemetry records.
For protocols, please visit the protocol categories page.
| ID | Tag | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | adult | Adult |
| 3 | advertiser | Advertiser |
| 4 | entertainment | Arts and Entertainment |
| 5 | business | Business |
| 35 | cdn | CDN |
| 6 | education | Career and Education |
| 30 | cybersecurity | Cybersecurity |
| 33 | device-iot | Device/IoT |
| 10 | file-sharing | File Sharing |
| 9 | financial | Financial |
| 11 | gambling | Gambling |
| 12 | games | Games |
| 13 | government | Government |
| 36 | hosting | Hosting |
| 37 | telco | ISP/Telco |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | malware | Malware |
| 17 | messaging | Messaging |
| 18 | news | News |
| 31 | os-software-updates | OS/Software Updates |
| 19 | portal | Portal |
| 20 | recreation | Recreation |
| 21 | reference | Reference |
| 34 | remote-desktop | Remote Desktop |
| 23 | shopping | Shopping |
| 24 | social-media | Social Media |
| 26 | sports | Sports |
| 29 | streaming-media | Streaming Media |
| 27 | technology | Technology |
| 28 | vpn-and-proxy | VPN and Proxy |
| 32 | voip | VoIP/Conferencing |
From the command line, you can also get a listing of application and protocol IDs/tags with:
netifyd --dump-categories
You can also get an application listing from the command line:
netifyd --dump-apps