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Traffic Stats

When we have now a traffic limit and must pay for over traffic we really need traffic stats so we can see what we have to pay when traffic is empty and pay traffic begin ;)

  • Giacomo Tüfekci
  • Sep 11 2018
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Bandwidth
  • Sep 11, 2018

    Admin response

    We would like to make clear that we won't charge anyone for bandwidth billing until we have a way to provide information about usage, as Moisey pointed out in the past. We are working to provide this information, we will keep you posted.
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  • Ryan Stubbs commented
    30 May, 2020 05:10pm

    Would be great to have this for Spaces also.

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  • Kamal Nasser commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    This is on our roadmap and we are going to start working on it soon. You can the progress here: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/3296966-show-resources-being-using-like-cpu-ram-disk-an

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Until you have a traffic graph and data on transfer we wont be charging you anything for data transfer =]

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Not sure I quite understand the request here but at $0.02 cents per GB overage I dont think you have much to worry about pushing a little bit of extra bandwidth.

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Coming soon, until then we aren't charging for bandwidth.

    Thanks

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  • Daniel Groves commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Good temporary solution is to use vnstat.

    sudo apt-get install vnstat
    sudo vnstat -u (starts recording data)

    Then, when you want to check what traffic you've used etc
    vnstat -q

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  • LazyTiger commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    There's also a PHP front-end for vnStat: http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/index.php?p=1

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    We will be integrating some of the new items that are billable into the invoice so customers can get an idea of their usage prior to getting actually billed for them.

    Thanks!

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  • Anonymous commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Updates? This is a good idea.

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  • Wes Keene commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    The link posted in the comment by Kamal Nasser would indicate this feature is done. However, after trading emails with customer service yesterday (and by looking at the graphs) it would appear that it isn't.

    I would expect a single numerical value indicating how many GB have been consumed in the current billing month for the particular Droplet being viewed. Is this on the way?

    Also, will there be a way to purchase add-on "packs" of bandwidth, independent of just buying a beefier Droplet? To a certain point, upgrading the Droplet to get more transfer is OK, but past a certain point, it's kind of silly to buy 96GB of RAM just because you need lots of transfer.

    Thanks.

    Wes Keene

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  • Anonymous commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Currently I only have access to a graph showing me my bandwith usage between periods. But it is lack of a total usage of bandwitdh, like: 1.4GB of 1TB of monthly bandwidth usage.

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  • Joel commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    This would be very useful!

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  • Walid commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    I suggest implement Observium within your Droplet, I tested and working well.

    http://www.observium.org/

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  • Afitz200 . commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    I heard there planning on adding this.. i talk to the support team and they said they wont charge for overages on bandwidth until they make an accurate system

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  • Anonymous commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    If the traffic volume measurement (and billing) is on a per droplet basis then how to scale an application that uses NGINX (or haproxy) as a loadbalancer, the droplet running NGINX will be showing the complete traffic whereas the load balanced application droplets will not show anything as they only communicate with the loadbalancer

    Thus it would make more sense to have the total traffic being accumulated over all droplets (on a per account basis) . Only when that is exceeded then additional traffic should be purchased/paid for.

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  • Jeffrey commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Ugh yeah, they definitely need to add this.

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  • Juan Pablo commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    This is more than necessary. We need to know exactly when we run out of bandwidth with a single numerical value indicating how many GB have been consumed in the current billing month for the particular Droplet being viewed.

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  • Perry Cox commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    any updates on this - if your on a 'metered' tarrif, we need to be able to check total usage.

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  • Tyeth Gundry commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Is this still coming soon? As quoted you are currently not charging for bandwidth?

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  • Zachary DuBois commented
    11 Sep, 2018 07:09pm

    Updates on this? If bandwidth isn't charged, it should be said somewhere on the site.

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