proper:bytes

Simple and delightful traffic monitoring for your webserver!

Goals

• Easy to setup, maintain and develop
• Secure
• Optimised for desktop, iPad, Retina displays
• Scale from Megabytes to Petabytes (or whatever)
• Milestones

Screenshot

Components

proper:bytes (p:b) consists of a smallish Ruby daemon for data collection from a custom logfile and a not-so-smallish JavaScript client. The daemon exports a static JSON dataset for consumption by the client, no web accessible server component is required.

Dataflow

System requirements

• Some UNIX flavour
• PostgreSQL
• MRI-Ruby 1.9 or compatible with pg and EventMachine
• Server producing a traffic logfile (see below)
• A modern webbrowser

Installation

• Download
• FreeBSD with nginx
• Ubuntu with Apache

Logfile format

<hostname> <bytes received> <bytes sent>

One line represents one request.

Example

consetetur.org 3492 1393844
lorem.de 4220 60119
consetetur.org 3821 920377

Development

npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower
bower install
grunt server