Feature #40

Show historical transfer data

Added by ra over 14 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:New Start:2010-09-29
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Description

The panel shows data transfer for the current month.
It would be interesting to see historical values too, better still graphically.

History

Updated by admin over 14 years ago

This is what cacti is for:

https://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/

Updated by ra over 14 years ago

Cacti doesn't show that though (without taking the average throughput and multiplying by the time range of the graph)?

What I mean is accumulated transfer for some period (months, probably) - basically, an archive of the "data transfer report" emails, with the data thrown at some graph library.

Updated by admin over 14 years ago

Yes, you have to multiply the average by the graph range in Cacti, but it's already an extremely capable graphing application. The alternative is writing our own one which would duplicate this and not be as good, just for the sake of it saying "XX GB in this graph" instead of "123kbit/sec average".

Another downside of Cacti however is that it reports all bandwidth usage whereas data transfer is only billed if it's destined for outside bitfolk's network.

Updated by jane over 10 years ago

Even if it's just a quick reference of "this is how much you used last month" to see if the current month is on track or not.

Updated by admin over 10 years ago

Total amounts transferred were added to Cacti so that no multiplication of data rates is required.

If you look at https://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/graph.php?action=view&rra_id=all&local_graph_id=2673 you'll see that you transferred 70 / 64 GB in the last month. You can click the magnifying glass at top right to specify any time period you like.

Updated by jane over 10 years ago

Ahh, very useful, thanks.

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