I couldn't find any information on the Network Bandwidth monitor and ended up thinking it worked intuitively, when in reality it doesn't.

Atera's Network Bandwidth monitor is actually monitoring the total bytes sent and received on an interface. A better name for this monitor would be "Network Utilization" as that describes what is being measured, or better yet "Network Interface Utilization" because Atera isn't monitoring the entire network saturation, only the interface utilization on an endpoint.

I do think there's still a place for bandwidth monitoring though. I'd like to monitor for low bandwidth connections so I can be better prepared for calls from end users. For instance, when they connect to a wifi network that has the bandwidth of DSL and packet latency of 100ms, I'd like to create an alert so I can notify the user of what kind of experience they can expect on a low performing network. This would also reduce calls about apps not functioning well, or VPN performance being slow.