# flowrate **Explanation** The flowrate NDM is an opt-in system NDM designed to fire if the rate of flows received by Netography from a particular flow source exceeds a certain threshold within an hour. **What to Look For** The flowrate NDM can be enabled and configured with different thresholds in order to monitor the health of flow reporting, create an alert when flows have begun from a particular device, or identify circumstances in which high rate of flows are being reported by a particular device due to high amounts of network utilization. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.fusion.vectra.ai/detection-models/library/system/flowrate.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.