Networking related InfluxDB metrics

[Steffen Hildinger]

Hello,

I'm looking for documentation about the metric entities for networking.

As I can see there are under nics the entities netin, netout, transmit and receive.
What is the unit for them? bits, bytes, packets, ... ?
Under system I found netin and netout. Same question about these.

There is also a network traffic graph in the web frontend. There is also no unit and how are these related to the data in influxdb?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Benc]

What is the unit for them? bits, bytes, packets, ... ?
Under system I found netin and netout. Same question about these.
There is also a network traffic graph in the web frontend. There is also no unit and how are these related to the data in influxdb?

The units are in Bits per Second across all of these. This is the most common way to measure network traffic.
The web frontend is displaying the same information, as it pulls the data from the db in order to create the graphs.

 

[Steffen Hildinger]

Thank you for your answer, but ...
while I was waiting for an answer, I did some research.
If I'm not wrong, the data is updated from pearl module pve-manager.git /PVE/Service/pvestatd.pm and method update_node_status.
Source is /proc/net/dev. Output is in "Bytes" and same data is written to influxdb.