On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:29:46 +0000, admin wrote: ...
Reading your response, I guess that I totally misunderstood Jacob's actual question
As far as I understood Jacob asked you how many traffic data point you log, and I asked him how many are acceptable. (And pointed out that the given screen, although showing only apparently monthly numbers, could be used to get more detailed information by polling it, depending on the update rate.)
So, in fact, hourly, daily and monthly stats all get updated hourly on every VPS individually. Unfortunately Atlas does not provide a convenient way to see the total traffic transmitted/received within a day/month etc and as we have monthly traffic limits in place at sponsors, we decided to use vnStat to have an idea about the actual total traffic transmitted/received.
I do similar, but I run a simple cronjob around ifconfig. :-) Also for seeing the total traffic consumption on my relays (and my home DSL). I then feed that into gnuplot for some graphs for me to see; and the interplay of RelayBandwithRate and RelayBandwidthBurst ist pretty plain to see in there.
There are pretty obvious patterns esp. on low-bandwith relays; if you collected them all you'd possibly be able to reconstruct circuit usage. Hence my question how coarse traffic volume logging should be.
Andreas