Guest API clarification (network-get-interfaces)

[Mecanik]

Hi,

This question is about https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/#/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/agent/network-get-interfaces.

Can someone explain to me what these represent?

"statistics": {
"rx-packets": 501361,
"tx-bytes": 15465504,
"tx-dropped": 0,
 "tx-errs": 0,
"rx-errs": 0,
"tx-packets": 142125,
"rx-dropped": 0,
"rx-bytes": 404271589
}

I would like to know over what period this is pulled as well.

Many thanks

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

Can someone explain to me what these represent?

rx-packets	The number of packets received by the network interface.
tx-bytes	The number of bytes transmitted by the network interface.
tx-dropped	The number of transmitted packets that were dropped by the network interface.
tx-errs	The number of transmitted packets that resulted in an error.
tx-packets	The number of packets transmitted by the network interface.
rx-dropped	The number of received packets that were dropped by the network interface.
rx-bytes	The number of bytes received by the network interface.
rx-errs	The number of received packets that resulted in an error.

I would like to know over what period this is pulled as well.

AFAIK every 10 seconds.

 

[Mecanik]

Hi,

rx-packets	The number of packets received by the network interface.
tx-bytes	The number of bytes transmitted by the network interface.
tx-dropped	The number of transmitted packets that were dropped by the network interface.
tx-errs	The number of transmitted packets that resulted in an error.
tx-packets	The number of packets transmitted by the network interface.
rx-dropped	The number of received packets that were dropped by the network interface.
rx-bytes	The number of bytes received by the network interface.
rx-errs	The number of received packets that resulted in an error.

AFAIK every 10 seconds.

Thanks, very helpful. Would be nice if the API viewer would be more detailed. I noticed quite some inconsistencies between PVEH and the HTTP API.

What's the purpose to show only last 10 seconds of data? Can it be changed or something? If it was last 30 minutes or hour, it would make some sense