PfSense 2.3 new Traffic Graph doesn't include total Traffic in time period

ortizdr

Like all of you, I'm also desperately hoping for daily total traffic over a period of time as well. I have Uverse and even they have a usage meter, which is of questionable accuracy according to: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30773881-Usage-meter-is-now-live

jdillard is suppose to bringing out an updated vnstat package for this function, hopefully in the v2.3.2 release.

I am in the same boat. The rrd graph was great! Just updated to 2.3, it looks great!!!

jdillard

Here is a preview (from a test VM so the traffic is not normal looking): https://i.imgur.com/GqvihFX.gifv

All I should have left is getting the options in and out of the configuration. This is my first time doing that, so not sure how long that is going to take.

BabaBooey

Thanks, nice work, looking forward to the update ;D

Vidmo

Looks good. Is this meant to replace VNStat or the RRD graph functionality? Just trying to get an idea or where the requirements are coming from.

Vidmo

jdillard

It is vnStat, I just put a fancy front-end on it (using it's JSON output) and allow you to set it up without going to the CLI. It is basically a better version of the old vnstat2 package.

It doesn't replace RRD, it just complements it in regards to bandwidth/traffic totals as a lot of people liked that functionality. It also stores the data in a way that is more accurate than RRD for historical data.

The old RRD graphs had a totaling function in the graphing utility, but we cut the graphing utility out because it was going to double the total size of the pfSense image. Not everyone needs traffic totals though, so it is being left as an optional package instead of as part of base. I just felt traffic totals were a basic functionality that should be in pfSense and this was the path of least resistance. I also wanted to learn how to make a package so that I could be more useful in that regard in the future.

Another thing that was lost when we cut out the rrdtool graphing was emailed reports with images. I'm not going to do it, but someone could in theory add vnStat images into the reporting package with vnstati.

richtj99

Hi,

Just curious if there has been any progress made on it. The gif looks perfect!

Thanks,
Rich

ortizdr

@richtj99:

Hi,

Just curious if there has been any progress made on it. The gif looks perfect!

Thanks,
Rich

I second this!!

Liath.WW

Not quite as nice as having all those graphs presentable as they were with RRD, but a damned sight better than what is here now.

Heck if RRD is still even possible I'd prefer that as a downloadable package, unless this new tool can 1-up the old tools. RRD wasn't always very accurate, especially with older data. But at least is was something I could pull up and argue with the ISP when they pull some of the crazy stunts they do.

jdillard

@richtj99:

Hi,

Just curious if there has been any progress made on it. The gif looks perfect!

Thanks,
Rich

It's closer: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=109700.msg634458#msg634458

njc

Has anyone else noticed that the "Last Month" traffic numbers under RRD Summary are an order of magnitude higher?

I looked at my current month total yesterday (6/30) and it was ~ 1,200,000 MB
Today (7/1) my last month total is ~ 13,028,404 MB!

richtj99

Is there a way to get any traffic stats beyond current at the moment stats?

I am looking to cut the cord with my cable company & am looking to stream a number of devices but want to make sure I can do it. Just curious if we have any other update or another suggestion on how to check traffic.

ronwbrown

Can we also add to save the current selections on the monitoring page?

It is painful to return to the page and have to re-select all your options again.

divsys

Take a look over at the 2.3.2 forum, some good new stuff:https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=114753.msg637619#msg637619

jdillard

@ronwbrown:

Can we also add to save the current selections on the monitoring page?

It is painful to return to the page and have to re-select all your options again.

There is a 'Save as Defaults' under the Advanced section.

EP1C-FIAL

Hello, all.

I'm just curious if the addition of 'RRD_Summary' and 'Status_Traffic_Totals' packages essentially closes this topic or is there a plan to bring this functionality back to native pfSense?

Thanks,
Brian

downtown

At least it worked.

downtown

@cmb:

Because it's a function of rrdtool graph, which has absurdly large dependencies in latest rrdtool. jdillard's working on a replacement with vnstat.

It worked.

julayach

+1 !!
Please bring it back!!

VoxisTelcom

The data it displays is not even close to correct now, its not just total inpass is no longer a sum of all data for the period

ntopng and rrd on the same system are way off, ntopng has some issue where you must select traffic even though its the default otherwise the min and max pull reported are averaged but ntopng is correct

rrd still needs to be fixed, it was very useful in proving packet loss and latency issues to ISPs, countless times we have been able to get ISP to escalate tickets when they were telling us "no issue"

ntop is over the head of most of the ISP support people on packet loss and it does not do latency at all (ntopng lacks nprobe)

in case of Time Warner, their high up techs have access to rrd tools monitoring the modem, and the rrd reporting use to match, now it does not

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Black Ninja

I don't believe this.

The one reason I switched to pfsense was cause it didn't loose total traffic on reboot compared to my plastic router, and now don't even show it ?

Just when Comcast roll it's 1TB data cap for home users and now somebody decide it's not no longer relevant feature to have, really ? After so much advanced features pfsense has, it can't even show you if you are over you data cap ? I am very disappointed, I even support the pf-sense project for future development.

If we are willing to revert to much older version of pf-sense just to get this crucial functionality back(disregarding any other changes for the last year as not as important as this), how come this is happening.

P.S. This is so bad. I can only speculate why , but I guess in something internally changed significant in pf-sense team, perhaps the whole thing switched hands. I had my 2.2.6 running for a year, and finally decide to upgrade. What a shame. I am glad I didn't donate as I was intending to, but upgrade first.