I recently updated to OPNsense 20.7.7-amd64 and I noticed differences to the graphs displayed at 'Reporting' -> 'Traffic'. The previous set of graphs is still in the documentation at https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/reporting_traffic.html. Just getting into OPNsense, this was one of my common landing spots, being able to see live bandwidth usage split out by LAN device. The new traffic graphs don't seem to have this anymore. Devices are shown on a tooltip, but it doesn't have the filtering available from the previous implementation.
Is there another way to get that information (without other plugin packages at least)? Or can I raise a request to return that level of information to traffic graphs?
It looks like we forgot to update the docs, so I've just updated the page to explain the new version.
Currently we don't have plans adding grids back in, there's just not a lot of room to combine these and if it's about stats on top consumers over a longer period of time, the integrated network insights feature is likely better suited for the job.
Best regards,
Ad
@wrigley418
I miss the old Grid style too :'(
Trying to navigate the dots, especially the ones that have multiple dots for a single point in the graph while the graph is moving at the same time is cumbersome.
Quote from: AhnHEL on December 18, 2020, 09:33:58 PM
@wrigley418
I miss the old Grid style too :'(
Trying to navigate the dots, especially the ones that have multiple dots for a single point in the graph while the graph is moving at the same time is cumbersome.
Yes,
i missed and needed the old grid for monitoring realtime bandwidth, sorted by interface and see the top10.
- NTOPNG is to big for this solution/issue
You can also go to cli and Type iftop .. give some parameters and it should look similar or give you numbers
Just saw this myself,
This was my goto for a quick view of realtime top consumers in my network. Don't want to drop into CLI for this please.
Is there a roadmap for how this updated traffic view is going to proceed? It's definitely prettier and flows nicely, but its very hard to try to gain any useful info from it apart from overall usage. A lot of the functionality has been removed.
I'm guessing there was a discussion somewhere about it needing to change?
If this view is to be kept, I'd like to propose an option:
Within the in and out bps graphs, can you choose to overlay the top talkers.
The top talkers are available through a dynamic group of buttons with their name or IP address and the colour they will show as on the graph (dots and lines).
These buttons are toggles so you can quickly turn them on an off and have multiple on at the same time.
You could also choose a talker by entering its IP address manually.
This allows you to find out which talkers are requiring the most traffic out of your total quickly and in realtime.
Quote from: AhnHEL on December 18, 2020, 09:33:58 PM
@wrigley418
I miss the old Grid style too :'(
Trying to navigate the dots, especially the ones that have multiple dots for a single point in the graph while the graph is moving at the same time is cumbersome.
I completely agree with the comments here. The old traffic reporting screen, and showing the traffic bandwidth by (resolved) hostname, in a sortable table format, was the #1 reason I spent the last several months moving all of my multi-wan routing to a singular solution in Opnsense. I used to leave that reporting screen open all day while the people in my house did remote work, allowing me to manage and fine-tune our limited WAN bandwidth from multiple cellular providers, and track down problem clients.
I spent countless hours migrating and tuning Opnsense to get all of our devices and WANs managed in one place with that single reporting screen being one of the primary drivers. I literally finally got everything working
last night, and did an update to 20.7.7 to make sure I had all the latest patches, only to find when I loaded the Traffic screen this morning that it had completely changed, and doesn't include the details I need at my fingertips anymore, I'm stunned, and a bit dismayed.
I have sent more screenshots to friends and colleagues, of that old Traffic page, than anything else in my quest to convince others to switch to Opnsense, and many were convinced, and now it's just gone forever? :(
https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/4186f2bbe5dfd28dc7bf9f47585121e3273297f1
It will come back with similar functions
@mimugmail
Thank you for taking the time on this. Happy Holidays!!
Quote from: AhnHEL on December 25, 2020, 11:31:41 PM
@mimugmail
Thank you for taking the time on this. Happy Holidays!!
Agreed! Thank you to @mimugmail and @AdSchellevis, from me as well.
I didn't do anything rather than just watching commits ;D
Thank you! It really was one of the most used features, to be able to look at the top talkers at a given moment, to see who is using the most traffic, etc. Reverting to ntopng is cumbersome and the old traffic viewer was amazing.
Quote from: mimugmail on December 25, 2020, 05:44:56 PM
https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/4186f2bbe5dfd28dc7bf9f47585121e3273297f1
It will come back with similar functions
I thought I was going mad today, only installed OPNsense early this week and this was my go to section and is what I thought was a major point in keeping this installed.
Updated this morning to the latest version and blam, changed and couldn't find it..
Any ideas on when the updated (Old) version is going to be released?
Reporting : Traffic and the Tab "Top Talkers", already in 20.7.8
Really need this feature back in please.
Per IP or resolved hostname realtime bandwidth monitoring.
Basically what was in before and not just top talkers which has replaced it and really is horrible to use.
Can you please give us a reason why this was removed? Maybe then we could understand this better.
Thanks
No nice graph, but the information I need for troubleshooting. For me it's ok.
Thanks
Yep would love the host name function back and only true Lan IP stats showing, not the IP address the Lan is talking to too..
Unfortunately for me this was the one last feature keeping me with my beloved OPNsense setup.
Realtime traffic per IP/Hostname is a great feature to help see what's consuming your available bandwidth. Advancing this feature rather than reducing it would be a great asset for OPNsense, but I understand why it needed to be removed at this stage.
Hopefully it will be picked up again and progressed towards something like what is available in the fresh tomato firmware.
https://freshtomato.org/
Let this thing evolve for a period of time. There's lot potential in it and maybe not the feature you expect.
But you wont motivate anyone when writing "last feature keeping me at OPNsense". If you other distros are better at everything than the top talker feature you really must dislike OPNsense ;)
Yes I apologise for saying that.
Was in the moment and it didn't come over well in a message.
This was one of my favourite features out of all of the greatness that is OPNsense :)
Is there any update on adding the old Lan monitoring back where you can just see your LAN IP's and their traffic? With Hostname support too ;)
Or is there a way to edit the current config to re-add this back?
The current top talkers show the LAN IP and also the WAN IP in the LAN interface its connecting to..
There is no way back, but I think it's worth a try to open a feature request and ask friendly for name lookup.
The new traffic tool will evolve, it needs some more love and ideas, but it takes time :)
This toptalker seems a bit unusable for me...
It gives remote raw IPs (IPs form the internet) but not who it's talking to in LAN...
I just spend a hard time to find who was taking all the bandwith in my home...opnsense didn't helped much on that :'(
didn't update? We added https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/4724 a couple of versions ago (I think as of 21.1.3).
Best regards,
Ad