Updated Traffic Graphs

[wrigley418]

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?

[AdSchellevis]

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

[AhnHEL]

@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.

[rolsch]

@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

[mimugmail]

You can also go to cli and Type iftop .. give some parameters and it should look similar or give you numbers

[bunchofreeds]

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.

[Jsalinger]

@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?   

[mimugmail]

https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/4186f2bbe5dfd28dc7bf9f47585121e3273297f1

It will come back with similar functions

[AhnHEL]

@mimugmail

Thank you for taking the time on this.  Happy Holidays!!

[Jsalinger]

@mimugmail

Thank you for taking the time on this.  Happy Holidays!!

Agreed! Thank you to @mimugmail and @AdSchellevis, from me as well.

[mimugmail]

I didn't do anything rather than just watching commits 

[perogy1]

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.

https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/4186f2bbe5dfd28dc7bf9f47585121e3273297f1

It will come back with similar functions

[Atomical]

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?

[mimugmail]

Reporting : Traffic and the Tab "Top Talkers", already in 20.7.8

[bunchofreeds]

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