Monitoring peak traffic on an interface over time
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I am currently using Status > Traffic Totals to monitor total traffic on a few interfaces over time, but it doesn't give me everything I am looking for. Status Totals gives me the total bytes IN/OUT in a given hourly period which gives me the average utilization on an interface for that hourly period, but I also want to see is how often the IN/OUT traffic hits the bandwidth limiter I have set on that interface, in other words, how often am I maxing out that interface. I anyone has any ideas, love to hear your suggestions.
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You can use the monitoring graphs in Status > Monitoring. Be aware that they average over time though so the longer time span graphs will not show short peaks.
Otherwise check: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/graphs/bandwidth-usage.html
Steve
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@vconroy said in Monitoring peak traffic on an interface over time:
I am currently using Status > Traffic Totals to monitor total traffic on a few interfaces over time, but it doesn't give me everything I am looking for. Status Totals gives me the total bytes IN/OUT in a given hourly period which gives me the average utilization on an interface for that hourly period, but I also want to see is how often the IN/OUT traffic hits the bandwidth limiter I have set on that interface, in other words, how often am I maxing out that interface. I anyone has any ideas, love to hear your suggestions.
Yes, that is exactly what I am looking for as well. I'd like to record the short peaks during a 12 month period.
Did you check out the available options at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/graphs/bandwidth-usage.html ?
