Traffic History

[Dave Rutherford]

I have my traffic History saving to a custom location (sdcard in the USB 2.0 port). All seems to be working with the exception of the most important thing, files are being saved as a .gz file type, how to I open this to view the traffic History?

 

[ColinTaylor]

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/how-to-view-traffic-monitoring-logs.37264/

 

[Dave Rutherford]

OK, maybe I am missing something with this feature. It gives you the ability to save history from all or specific devices and save them to a customer location. If you do not have the ability to read the file, what good is this feature? What am I missing? I simply want to be able to record web history from specific devices to an attached sd card and view the web history logs at a later time.

Also, is there anyway to view the adaptive QOS web history remotely?

 

[RMerlin]

what good is this feature?

For viewing within the webui.

 

[Dave Rutherford]

For viewing within the webui.

I understand you can view in the webui, but, it only shows such a short period. Is there a way to extend that period?

 

[RMerlin]

I understand you can view in the webui, but, it only shows such a short period. Is there a way to extend that period?

Once you configure the database on a USB disk, it can report multiple months. I forgot the exact limit, but I think it's somewhere around 6 months - that's plenty enough.

 

[Dave Rutherford]

Once you configure the database on a USB disk, it can report multiple months. I forgot the exact limit, but I think it's somewhere around 6 months - that's plenty enough.

How do you access / read the database?

 

[RMerlin]

How do you access / read the database?

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/unable-to-get-traffic-statistics-working.37911/#post-311967

 

[MarkRH]

I think the main benefit of this is not loosing the traffic data after every firmware update or reboot if it was kept stored in RAM. That's the main benefit I see anyway.

 

[Marko Polo]

Did I get right, that both Traffic Monitor and Traffic statistics tabs count history logs from USB? Or only Monitor?

I forgot the exact limit, but I think it's somewhere around 6 months - that's plenty enough.

And where we can view/edit this time limit? Is 6 months an exact value or so-so?

 

[Charlie Gorichanaz]

Despite having my traffic stats saved to a USB drive with many gigabytes free, my traffic history never goes back more than a month. I would like to be able to store it indefinitely.

Cursory search of the asuswrt-merlin Git repo for traffic.db (this is on my jffs and is not the stuff stored in cstats/rstats on the USB, but I have not fully explored yet) yielded some seeming 1month deletion code in release/src/router/traffic_limiter/traffic_limiter.c, but I am not sure if that is related.

 

[MarkRH]

Mine has monthly amounts going back to Jan 2017 when I started saving them to the USB stick, so 14 months. The Daily lists seems to go back 2 months. First day is Dec 26, 2017.

Did I get right, that both Traffic Monitor and Traffic statistics tabs count history logs from USB? Or only Monitor?

Only the Traffic Monitor amounts are saved, not the Statistics tab. The Statistics tab uses the Trend Micro Engine in a separate database file and all this part of the code is closed source.