Realtime Traffic is a Linux realtime trafic monitoring tool, graphing rx and tx of a Linux network interface in realtime to any modern web browser supporting WebSockets and SVG, developed at struktur AG

Dowload the software, either using Git, or grab a ZIP and extract it somewhere.

Getting started:

$ wget -O rtt.zip https://github.com/longsleep/realtimetraffic/archive/master.zip
$ unzip rtt.zip
$ cd realtimetraffic-master
$ make
$ ./bin/realtimetraffic

Now just open up your browser:

$ firefox http://127.0.0.1:8088/?autostart=1

See the usage information (-h) for options.

The trafficserver is basically a Websocket server pushing traffic data to any connected client.

Usage of ./bin/realtimetraffic:
  -client="./client": Path to client directory.
  -listen="127.0.0.1:8088": Listen address.

The client default parameters can be configured by URL query parameters.

url         The trafficserver Websocket URL.
interf      Inteface Name to capture the traffic (default eth0).
autostart   Automatically connect to server on launch.

This library was developed by Simon Eisenmann at struktur AG

Copyright (C) 2012-2014 struktur AG

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.