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Description

  • A CLI(Command line interface) based application for obtaining statistics of data usage in Linux based systems(Ubuntu)
  • This repository consits of python source codes required to find houlry data usage and plot it.

Requirements

  • Python3 is required with matplotlib installed on your device.
  • Download these files data_today.py3 and data_24hrs.py3 and to use below commands.
  • vnstat is required and can be installed from here

How to Use

  • In your terminal use the below commands

    • To get type of interface to monitor data usage

      vnstat

    • For obatining hourly usage today with plot

      vnstat -h -i wlo1 > d.txt | python3 data_today.py3

    • For obatining past 24 hours data with plot

       vnstat -h -i wlo1 > d.txt | python3 data_24 hrs.py3

Note : Here wlo1 is your system's wireless interface network. You can also use for ethernet by changing interface name. Write your interface name in place of "wlo1"