Description

• A CLI(Command line interface) based application for obtaining statistics of data usage in Linux based systems(Ubuntu)
• This repository consits of python source codes required to find houlry data usage and plot it.

Requirements

• Python3 is required with matplotlib installed on your device.
• Download these files data_today.py3 and data_24hrs.py3 and to use below commands.
• vnstat is required and can be installed from here

How to Use

• In your terminal use the below commands

  • To get type of interface to monitor data usage

    vnstat
    

  • For obatining hourly usage today with plot

    vnstat -h -i wlo1 > d.txt | python3 data_today.py3 

  • For obatining past 24 hours data with plot
    

     vnstat -h -i wlo1 > d.txt | python3 data_24 hrs.py3 

Note : Here wlo1 is your system's wireless interface network. You can also use for ethernet by changing interface name. Write your interface name in place of "wlo1"