bmon - Bandwidth Monitor

bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.

Download

Debian/Ubuntu Installation

git clone https://github.com/tgraf/bmon.git
cd bmon
apt-get install build-essential make libconfuse-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev libncurses-dev pkg-config dh-autoreconf
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon

CentOS (6) Installation

git clone https://github.com/tgraf/bmon.git
cd bmon
yum install make libconfuse-devel libnl3-devel libnl-route3-devel ncurses-devel
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon

OSX Installation

Brew

brew install bmon

Compile yourself

Install libconfuse

wget https://github.com/martinh/libconfuse/releases/download/v2.8/confuse-2.8.zip
unzip confuse-2.8.zip && cd confuse-2.8
PATH=/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH ./configure
make
make install

Install bmon

git clone https://github.com/tgraf/bmon.git
cd bmon
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon

New in 4.0

Use monotonic clock instead of realtime clock
Pick default selected interface based on policy
Collect RX NoHandler statistics if available (Linux)
CentOS installation instructions
Proper stdout flush in ASCII mode
Bugfixes

Usage

To run bmon in the default curses mode:

bmon

There are many other options available and full help is provided via:

bmon --help

Screenshots

Copyright

Various authors, see git commit log.

Copyright (c) 2001-2016 Thomas Graf tgraf@suug.ch Copyright (c) 2013 Red Hat, Inc.

Please see the LICENSE.BSD and LICENSE.MIT files for additional details.

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