Re: Traffic sent and traffic received in historical view in ntopng

I forgot to mention the reason for needing hourly or daily totals is that things like users streaming radio, etc, can contribute greatly to daily totals, but never show up in a MBits/s graph because they're low level, but all day.

Peter Shute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:ntop-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: Friday, 19 May 2017 9:42 AM
> To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] Traffic sent and traffic received in historical view in
> ntopng
> 
> Apologies for hijacking Andrew's thread, but maybe what I want could turn
> out to be helpful for others.
> 
> Looking though the available graphs and Andrew's Meraki video, I think
> where I'm struggling is that all the graphs show traffic in Mbit/s. That's ideal
> for identifying causes of peak bandwidth usage if you have problems with
> contention. It doesn't help if you're trying to identify reasons for high total
> usage, e.g. exceeding a monthly download quota.
> 
> I would like to have the option to see the traffic in, say, MB/hour or GB/day.
> The only way I can see to do that now is to manually enter date ranges and
> ignore the charts and just look at the totals. I've attached a sample GB/day
> chart from our ISP's website. I'm imagining being able to hover over the high
> usage day of 26 April and see the top talkers for that day. Or click on it and
> show just that day in MB/hour.
> 
> Would a feature like this help you, Andrew, or anyone?
> 
> Peter Shute
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Emanuele Faranda
> > Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2017 8:29 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Ntop] Traffic sent and traffic received in historical
> > view in ntopng
> 
> > What I feel is missing is:
> > 1) an aggregated view of the top protocols on the graph
> > 2) an easy way from the historical explorer to aggregate per host or
> > per protocol to be able to see and sort bewteen accurate statistics