Efficient ways to monitor bandwidth usage?

comXyz

Hi everyone,

I will need to use some dedicated servers with limited bandwidth allocated.
What are the efficient ways to monitor the bandwidth usage and stop the servers to avoid bandwidth overages?

Thanks.

Arkas

What control panel are you using?

comXyz

@Arkas said: What control panel are you using?

I don't use any control panel. The server will run different microservices, most of the services are docker-based.

I'm thinking of collecting the result from vnstat to a web service and then manually do necessary actions.

Arkas

there are many options for you to install monitoring services for bandwidth that alert you when you reach a certain limit, even stopping all services if necessary. The options are too many to list.

for example check here:
https://www.tecmint.com/linux-network-bandwidth-monitoring-tools/

ralf

I use hetrixtools. It monitors many things, and this is one of them.

Hotmarer

vnstat + bash script to shutdown server when the limit has been reached

bulbasaur

@Hotmarer said:
vnstat + bash script to shutdown server when the limit has been reached

Shutting down seems a bit much?

Hotmarer

@stevewatson301 said:

@Hotmarer said:
vnstat + bash script to shutdown server when the limit has been reached

Shutting down seems a bit much?

It is better for him to stop the server himself than to have it removed by the service provider.

DP

@stevewatson301 said:

@Hotmarer said:
vnstat + bash script to shutdown server when the limit has been reached

Shutting down seems a bit much?

Yeah that's mean

Or maybe use something like Wonder Shaper.

Forhosting

Librenms
enable the traffic billing in the config and do a cron to the built-in API.
And set the desired action in your cron once the limit has been reached.