Graphing In Mikrotik

Interface Graphing

Submenu level: /tool graphing interface

Description

Shows how much traffic is passed through an interface over a period of time.

Property Description

allow-address (IP address/netmask; default: 0.0.0.0/0) - IP address range which is allowed to view information about the interface. If a client PC not belonging to this IP address range tries to open http://[Router_IP_address]/graphs/, it will not see this entry

interface (name; default: all) - name of the interface which will be monitored

store-on-disk (yes | no; default: yes) - whether to store information about traffic on system drive or not. If not, the information will be stored in RAM and will be lost after a reboot

Example

To monitor traffic which is passed through interface ether1 only from local network 192.168.10.0/24, and write information on disk:

[admin@MikroTik] tool graphing interface> add interface=ether1 \
\... allow-address=192.168.10.0/24 store-on-disk=yes
[admin@MikroTik] tool graphing interface> print
Flags: X - disabled
 #   INTERFACE ALLOW-ADDRESS      STORE-ON-DISK
 0   ether1    192.168.10.0/24     yes
[admin@MikroTik] tool graphing interface>

Graph for interface ether1:

Simple Queue Graphing

Submenu level: /tool graphing queue

Description

In this submenu you can specify a queue from the /queue simple list to make a graphic for it.

Property Description

allow-address (IP address/netmask; default: 0.0.0.0/0) - IP address range which is allowed to view information about the queue. If a client PC not belonging to this IP address range tries to open http://[Router_IP_address]/graphs/, it will not see this entry

allow-target (yes | no; default: yes) - whether to allow access to web graphing from IP range that is specified in /queue simple target-address

simple-queue (name; default: all) - name of simple queue which will be monitored

store-on-disk (yes | no; default: yes) - whether to store information about traffic on hard drive or not. If not, the information will be stored in RAM and will be lost after a reboot

Example

Add a simple queue to Grapher list with simple-queue name queue1, allow limited clients to access Grapher from web, store information about traffic on disk:

[admin@MikroTik] tool graphing queue> add simple-queue=queue1 allow-address=yes \
\... store-on-disk=yes

"Daily" graphic for queue1: