# Introduction

The Fabric View application displays port performance using graphs. Fabric View provides a method to visually monitor the real-time traffic for each port on a switch. Traffic for a port is displayed in its own graph that is continually updated to reflect changes as they occur, and is based on the number of kilobytes (Kbytes), or on the number of frames that pass through that port per second. One kilobyte is equal to 1024 bytes per second.