proper:bytes

Simple and delightful traffic monitoring for your webserver!

Goals

Easy to setup, maintain and develop
Secure
Optimised for desktop, iPad, Retina displays
Scale from Megabytes to Petabytes (or whatever)
Milestones

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Components

proper:bytes (p:b) consists of a smallish Ruby daemon for data collection from a custom logfile and a not-so-smallish JavaScript client. The daemon exports a static JSON dataset for consumption by the client, no web accessible server component is required.

Dataflow

System requirements

Some UNIX flavour
PostgreSQL
MRI-Ruby 1.9 or compatible with pg and EventMachine
Server producing a traffic logfile (see below)
A modern webbrowser

Installation

Download
FreeBSD with nginx
Ubuntu with Apache

Logfile format

<hostname> <bytes received> <bytes sent>

One line represents one request.

Example

consetetur.org 3492 1393844
lorem.de 4220 60119
consetetur.org 3821 920377

Development

npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower
bower install
grunt server

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