Monitor bandwidth usage with bandwhich (and build a snap package of it)

• cbm

  1 32 0.0 C++

  Color Bandwidth Meter (CBM) - display in real time the network traffic speed

  

Very, very awesome! I love the per process table. How does that work?

CBM was a fine tool [0]. I think it's been basically abandoned though. It does only do per interface, but it seems like an earlier simpler iteration of this type of tool. It works by reading the stat tables in /proc/net/dev

I'd just throw our something I wrote a long time ago called fsbm [1] (fucking small bandwith monitor) which was a rewrite of CBM without curses. useful for logging to a file or to something without NCURSES support. Along the way I added support for network namespaces and just general other stuff. I use it frequently.

[0] https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/cbm

• nethogs

  14 2,996 5.8 C++

  Linux 'net top' tool

I'm not sure how it works beyond that it reads /proc, but whatever it does it uses a whole lot more compute than nethogs does (which also displays per process and also uses /proc as the information source). This is fine for most of my machines, but for lower-specced machines I'll probably have to stick with nethogs[1]

[1]: https://github.com/raboof/nethogs

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• picosnitch

  33 587 8.6 Python

  Monitor Network Traffic Per Executable, Beautifully Visualized

Similar to bandwhich, I recently created a snap of my own bandwidth monitor, picosnitch [1]. However I was only able to get it working with classic confinement (so it can't be published on the store) due to there being no snap interfaces for fanotify or BPF kfuncs.

I already packaged it for nearly every distro, but unfortunately most don't have dash [2] in their repos so the user needs to install it separately, and I was hoping that snap would be an easier solution for that.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/picosnitch/blob/master/snap/snap...

[2] https://repology.org/project/python:dash/versions

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