Traffic Rate zero - sometimes

[gauthig]

Please see attached traffic graph.   Traffic graphs (widgets, reporting - traffic, telegraf - influx - grafana...) stop collecting data from time to time.  It will last about 1 to 4 hours, then start showing traffic for about an hour and then stop again. 

Has anyone seen this before?
Interfaces are vmx (ESXI 7.0)

No performance issue, traffic is flowing great.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AusIvymxSsVCkPcNWDKj-6LFlxgkjA?e=xyiivy

[gauthig]

Just confirming, the 20.7.6 upgrade I have the same results.   Seems after every reboot the traffic monitors shwo activity on the network but about 2 minutes later it stops. Telegraph is sending data to a influx server and I see the same there. 

[mimugmail]

In 20.7 OS changed and currently it's unsupported to monitor traffic Data on Interfaces where running IPS or Sensei

[gauthig]

@mimugmail - Thanks, I shut down the IDS and solid traffic monitoring now.  As per my other posts, IDS/Netmap is really not working on my environment, a 10G card is down to about 1.2-1.5gbs.  Now with IDS off, I get traffic monitoring and 3.9gbs.

[mimugmail]

There are some patches regarding vmxnet in the pipeline but no guarantee it will be as fast as 20.1.

[franco]

Which pipeline? gauthig was already using all the FreeBSD available patches for stable/12 (20.7.4-next).

[mimugmail]

I thought Luigi is still working on it?

[franco]

Hmm, I don't know. I'm waiting for another sync from Sunny Valley on these topics at the moment, but it's Christmas time after all so that could be January.


Cheers,
Franco