Darkstat removed?

[Kwolfe19]

I am trying to enable some basic monitoring of usage on my network and I am looking at bandwidthd and darkstat. I have tried ntopng, but it is overkill for my needs and I don't think it does exactly what I want.

I've got bandwidthd running and I tried to install darkstat, but it seems it is no longer in the available packages for 20.1. I went back through the various snapshots and it seems that the last time it was available was in 18.7, and never made it into 19.1. Is this an oversight or was it pulled for a reason? If an oversight, I'm happy to add it back, but I am not sure how, so if someone could point me at a doc that says what to do, I'll learn that. If there is a workaround to try it out I'd also like to know how to do it.

Thanks!

[mimugmail]

Why not using vnstat or local netflow? Darkstst is unmaintained for years

[FingerlessGloves]

If its just interface bandwidth overtime, you can use LibreNMS to monitor that if you wanted. Plus monitor any other systems you might have.

[Kwolfe19]

So I've got vnstat turned on, which will give me the high level info for the WAN interface. However, I'd like to have some more details like: over the last month which PC in the house used the most bandwidth, and what site(s) did they go to. Then if there is suspicious traffic or behavior on the network I can drill in and find out if maybe there is malicious software or some other issue. I don't know if darkstat will provide that (hard to tell from the docs), so I wanted to try it out. While it's true that no updates have happened to darkstat in a while (2015), bandwidthd hasn't been updated since 2005.

I'll take a look at local netflow and LibreNMS to see if they offer what I want. ntopng is a huge resource hog, and my 2 core celeron wasn't up to it. Plus, I honestly could not figure out how to do what I described above after several hours of reading docs.