Priority-flow-control (PFC) buffer and history counters provide information on both present PFC pause conditions and past pause events. These buffer counters (since EOS-4.34.2F) and history counters (since EOS-4.35.0F) are available via OpenConfig in addition to the show commands that have existed in previous versions.

This document describes the PFC (priority-based flow control) history counters that are available to debug network oversubscription issues. These counters track statistics on the switch that is sending network traffic at a rate that is more than what its peer can handle.