[TriLUG] Application bandwidth analisys

[David Rasch]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:42:54AM -0400, "Aaron S. Joyner" <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> trilug wrote:
> 
> >All,
> >
> >I need a tool that can analyze the amount of bandwidth an application
> >uses in as close to real time as possible. The commercially available
> >product that I know of is Compuware's ApplicationVantage.
> >
> >Does anyone know if such a critter exists in the open source arena?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Nick
> >
> > 
> >
> If you're looking for ballpark numbers, something like gkrellm or 
> etherape may do the trick.  Gkrellm is something I often run on my 
> desktop just to keep an eye on the amount of bits flying by, with simple 
> meters.  If you just want to eyeball it as you work, it's probably the 
> right tool.  On the other hand if you want something more geared towards 
> just that task, EtherApe is the best tool that I'm aware of.  I don't 
> know how sophisticated you can get with Etherape in terms of being able 
> to analyse that data after the fact, but it can certainly do realtime 
> graphical display of bandwidth usage, along with numerical statitstical 
> output.

Ntop also provides pretty details network traffic analysis.  Including
statistics for bytes transferred per TCP connection, etc.  I'm not sure
it can do anything at the "application" level.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntop

David
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