Question: Network monitoring with vnStat
submitted 9 months ago by tarius edited 9 months ago
I am using vnStat to monitor network bandwidth on a Debian host that has several Docker containers. Because of the containers, there are several interfaces in addition to eth0.
My question is, should I just monitor eth0 instead of looking at all the bridge and virtual interfaces to get the actual usage because at the end of the day, everything goes through eth0? Or am I looking at this wrong?
Sample output:
``` rx / tx / total / estimated br-1ee235bc0b60: 2024-03 13.56 MiB / 97.42 MiB / 110.98 MiB / 391.02 GiB today 13.56 MiB / 97.42 MiB / 110.98 MiB / 112.54 MiB
br-2ce98d77a35a: 2024-03 0 B / 0 B / 0 B / -- today 0 B / 0 B / 0 B / --
docker0: 2024-03 0 B / 0 B / 0 B / -- today 0 B / 0 B / 0 B / --
eth0: 2024-03 98.03 MiB / 15.04 MiB / 113.07 MiB / 398.37 GiB today 98.03 MiB / 15.04 MiB / 113.07 MiB / 114.66 MiB ```
Yes, just look at eth0. You might like the iptraf tool too.