Traffic Monitoring
Hey all! I have an ubiquiti edgerouter and want to start doing some semi detailed traffic monitoring and analysis. Can anyone give any no-cost recommendations?
Posted Oct 12, 2016, 2:45 AM UTC
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Nagios?
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When you say traffic monitoring and analysis do you mean from a security standpoint (use Bro) or networking standpoint (I've heard good things about LibreNMS).
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If it supports snmp cacti
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snmp + LibreNMS is good. But for real traffic, I use vnstat or ntop
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Are you looking for something simple like aggregate bandwidth usage, or an in-depth breakdown?
For bandwidth usage anything with SNMP support should do the trick. My personal fav right now is Zabbix, but it might be overkill for just that use. Cacti, LibreNMS(Observium), or Nagios might be other alternatives. LibreNMS and Observium are much like Cacti, but less 'configurable', with the trade-off that they can auto-configure and get like 98% right out of the box. I use both Observium & Zabbix on my Unraid box, and while I can dig into Zabbix and get it to glean much more data, Observium was running and building charts within minutes of finishing the install.