Bandwidth stats from inside VPS?

[Mr. DOS]

Hi,

I'd like to use a PHP script running inside my VPS to monitor my bandwidth totals for the month. Short of scraping numbers out of the HyperVM page, is there any way I can interact with OpenVZ/HyperVM from within the VPS?

--- Mr. DOS

[misson]

One option would be to use netstat to get interface statistics. Two potential problems are that the stats are in terms of packets rather than bytes (on Linux; Windows should be fine on this count) and they're measured from system start. The latter is what makes netstat a poor tool for the job, since you'd have to contend with both restarts (which produce too-low stats) and new months (which produce too-high stats, and are easier to deal with than restarts).

There are also many fine bandwidth monitoring tools for Linux ([2]) or Windows.

[Mr. DOS]

Yes, I'm aware of that option and the problems associated with it, which are why I'd like to directly retrieve what HyperVM says I've used.

I will use something like that if no other method can be found, though.

--- Mr. DOS

[misson]

HyperVM provides a web API, though I'm not certain if the name ("Traffic") you see on the main panel is the resource name used in the API.