vnstat is a small tool to monitor and report network usage of a linux system. vnstati is a supportive tool for vnstat to generate the network statistics as png files.
This repository contains a small script to generate vnstati images and index.html to display the images as a webpage.
make sure vnstat and vnstati are installed and configured.
to install: for ubuntu 20.04 and above
sudo apt install vnstat vnstati
for below ubuntu 20.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/vnstat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install vnstat vnstati
to configure:
go to /etc/vnstat.conf in your server and make sure the Interface: is set to blank or updated with right name.
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go to
/var/www/html/in your system / server -
clone the repo in by running
git clone https://github.com/anbuchelva/vnstati-as-webpage.git vnstatiin the same path. Make sure you are having root previliges.
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Modify the vnstati.sh according to the network interface name (this can be identified by running
ip ain terminal) -
Update cron job to generate these images in specific interval. run
sudo crontab -eand add the following line at the end of the file*/5 * * * * /var/www/html/vnstati/vnstati.sh. This would generate the images for every 5 minutes.
There are two interfaces listed in the script and the html file, which can be modified based on your need.
visit http://localhost/vnstati or http://<server-ip>/vnstati to view the page. Sample screenshots are provided here.
If you wish to enable dark mode, copy the following code and replace it in /etc/vnstat.conf
# image colors
CBackground "2A2A2A"
CEdge "2A2A2A"
CHeader "474747"
CHeaderTitle "FFFFFF"
CHeaderDate "FFFFFF"
CText "FFFFFF"
CLine "B0B0B0"
CLineL "B0B0B0"
CRx "336b87"
CTx "90afc5"
CRxD "336b87"
CTxD "90afc5"
