Monitoring Internet traffic

Hi, 

Not really. But it could be a nice one! 

Do you think using speedtest-cli tool would work for you? 

Here is a sample output: 

/usr/bin/speedtest-cli --json

{
    "download": 1356238076.531529,
    "upload": 1309869191.1826591,
    "ping": 1.81, 
    "server": {
       "url": "http://speedtest1.blacknight.ie:8080/speedtest/upload.php",
       "lat": "53.3498",
       "lon": "-6.2603",
       "name": "Dublin",
       "country": "Ireland",
       "cc": "IE",
       "sponsor": "Blacknight",
       "id": "4604",
       "host": "speedtest1.blacknight.ie:8080",
       "d": 1.292318731301413,
       "latency": 1.81
    },
    "timestamp": "2022-05-18T11:02:45.424516Z",
    "bytes_sent": 151519232,
    "bytes_received": 409373932,
    "share": null,
    "client": {
        "ip": "3.251.3.109",
        "lat": "53.3382",
        "lon": "-6.2591",
        "isp": "Amazon.com",
        "isprating": "3.7",
        "rating": "0",
        "ispdlavg": "0",
        "ispulavg": "0",
        "loggedin": "0",
        "country": "IE"
    }
}

Tell me if it does the tricks and share what information seems relevant for a monitoring check.

Cheers​​​​​

Hello
Sorry for the late reply.
I previously installed a similar script called speedtest-cli.
There is no threshold in this script.
As it turned out later, the network admin said that this script uses a lot of traffic.
Please tell me if you have faced this issue.

Hi, 

It was a proposal.

We can imagine encapsulate such script in a monitoring plugins with thresholds etc.

I would say this is logic about bandwidth usage because it will try to upload and download as much data as possible during a short period. This is the price to pay to check the up/down speeds. 

Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Thanks for the information.

Yours sincerely

Salamov Farkhad.

Thank you for the information🤗