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How to track total data consumption?? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello Selfhosters!!,

I am using Raspberry Pi to selfhost many things and looking for ways to track my data usage (what is the total transfer over period of months). So that I can choose right plan for my broadband connection.

Appreciate your help.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You can track it with iptables.

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/bandwidth-monitoring-iptables/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just have a cron job that runs "ifconfig | logger" once a week. When I want to know how much data has been sent or received, I subtract the RX bytes or TX bytes from the appropriately timestamped entries and divide by the time difference. Easy-peasy.