Analytics
Totals over time: ranges, chips, KPI tiles, every card in order, the year of activity, top rules, the written overview, saving a report as PDF and data budgets.
Analytics is the long view: totals and rankings over hours, days or the last year, from the same history the Network Monitor lists. The window title is Analytics.
Filters
Section titled “Filters”Three controls shape every card:
- Range: 1 Hour, 24 Hours, 7 Days, 30 Days, 12 Months.
- Show: All, Allowed or Blocked. Allowed includes connections allowed because nobody answered in time. Blocked includes connections blocked for the same reason.
- Connections or Data, the thing being counted.
Chips pin one app, one domain and one country. Click a row to add one. A second app replaces the app chip. Each chip has an x, and the help for clearing is “Show everything again”.
Search suggests apps, sites and countries. The prompt is “Search apps, sites and countries”. Nothing to suggest says “None in this range.” Countries appear once locations are known. See the location database.
An empty range, with no filters, says No Activity in This Range and “Outbound records connections as they happen. Choose a longer range or come back after some network use.” Filters that hide everything say Nothing Matches These Filters and “Nothing in this range matches what is chosen above. Remove a filter or show all connections to see more.”
The cards, in order
Section titled “The cards, in order”The written Overview comes first. Then the KPI tiles, Allowed and Blocked, Traffic, Activity, Top Apps beside Top Destinations, Top Rules, Countries, AI Agents when that range has any, New on the Network when anything was first seen in the range, and More details.
The KPI tiles
Section titled “The KPI tiles”Connections (with how many were allowed), Blocked (a percent of all, or None), Received (detail Downloaded), Sent (detail Uploaded), Apps (detail Used the network) and Destinations (with how many countries).
Allowed and Blocked
Section titled “Allowed and Blocked”One bar splits the range into allowed, blocked and asked connections, with the count of each, such as “120 allowed · 8 blocked · 3 asked”. Beside it, the change in blocked connections compared with the previous period of the same length, such as “As many blocked as the previous 7 days”. The comparison is counted in whole hours up to the start of the current hour, against the same number of hours before them.
Activity
Section titled “Activity”Activity is subtitled “Connections each day over the last 12 months”. It is a grid of days, darker on busier days, with the year’s total, how many days had any activity, and the busiest day. Point at a day to read it. A day with nothing recorded says “No data recorded for DATE.”
Top Rules
Section titled “Top Rules”Top Rules ranks the rules that decided the most connections. Its subtitle is “All time”. When chips or Show narrow the page, it reads “All time · Filters above do not apply”. Click a rule to open it in the rule manager. If the counts cannot be read, the card says “Rule usage could not be read.”
Traffic, rankings, countries
Section titled “Traffic, rankings, countries”Traffic names the busiest moment. Top Apps and Top Destinations rank the range. Click a row to pin that chip. Until the location database is in place, Countries says “Countries appear for connections recorded once Outbound’s location database is in place. It downloads by itself; Settings › Monitor shows its progress.”
AI Agents splits that traffic into apps, services and countries. New on the Network is subtitled “First seen in this range”.
The Overview card
Section titled “The Overview card”The card is a short summary written on this Mac by Apple Intelligence from the figures on the page. It is labelled Apple Intelligence · On this Mac. The line under that is “From your figures”, or “From your figures · Turn on Apple Intelligence for a written overview” when Apple Intelligence is unavailable. While it writes, the card says “Writing an overview…”. Details opens the figures behind the words, and Hide Details closes them. Outbound remembers which you left. The refresh control’s help is “Write the overview again”.
More details
Section titled “More details”One panel is open at a time, and Outbound remembers which:
- Blocked over Time, subtitle “N in range”
- Activity by Hour, subtitle “Local time”
- Protocols and Ports, subtitle “Most used”
Saving or printing a report
Section titled “Saving or printing a report”File › Export as PDF… (⇧⌘E) saves the page as a PDF report, and File › Print… (⌘P) prints it. The report uses the range, Show setting and chips you have chosen. It holds the totals, the allowed, blocked and asked split, sent and received, apps, destinations and countries, the traffic over time, the top apps, destinations and countries, AI apps and services, new apps, blocked connections, activity by weekday and hour, ports and the written overview. Exporting does not change the filters on screen.
The Tracking Report can be saved and printed the same way.
Data budgets
Section titled “Data budgets”A daily cap is set in the app’s inspector, section Daily Data Limit.
- Limit data for APP turns it on.
- The stepper reads “N MB a day”, from 50 to 100,000. Below 1,000 it steps by 50. From 1,000 it steps by 500. A new budget starts at 500 MB.
- At the limit is Notify Me (the default) or Block Until Midnight.
Notify Me says “You’ll be told at 80 % and again at the limit.” Block Until Midnight says “You’ll be told at 80 %. At the limit, a rule blocks APP until midnight, then removes itself.”
Outbound reads the day’s totals every five minutes. At 80 percent the notice title is “NAME is near its daily data limit” and the body is “It has used USED of LIMIT MB today.” At the limit, Notify Me says “It used USED today, your limit for it.” Block Until Midnight adds an ordinary block rule that expires at midnight. The notice then says “It used USED today, so it’s blocked until midnight.” If the block cannot be saved: “It used USED today. It couldn’t be blocked: PROBLEM”. The titles for those two are “NAME reached its daily data limit”.