Icecast - Jul 2006 - Monitor traffic/bandwidth by mountpoint

Found this:
http://bonehunter.rulez.org/~algernon/blog/2005/03/31/#munin_icecast


Traffic monitoring by mountpoint like this ought to be built into
icecast server.

Thanks,
Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: icecast-bounces@xiph.org [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas B. Ruecker
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:19 PM
To: icecast@xiph.org
Subject: Re: [Icecast] Monitor traffic/bandwidth by mountpoint

Shannon S. Coen wrote:
> I saw a request for this feature raised several years ago. Has this 
> been implemented yet?
>
> If not, how are users monitoring traffic on port 8000,
Iptables rules for traffic accounting exist.
> and even better
> can you split it up by mountpoint? 
realtime? nope, not that I would know
> I want to know how much traffic our
> icecast clients are using each month.
>   
oh? you can tell that by parsing logfiles there is a webalizer patched
as a streaming version.
If you are only interested in traffic as in byte count a standard
webalizer or any other log analyzer will do too.

Cheers

Thomas
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Shannon S. Coen wrote:
> Found this:
> http://bonehunter.rulez.org/~algernon/blog/2005/03/31/#munin_icecast
>
>
> Traffic monitoring by mountpoint like this ought to be built into
> icecast server.
>   
No, I don't think so.

Icecast follows the unix philosophy of "one tool for one purpose".

So something like monitoring of listener statistics should be done using
one or more tools specialized in statistics and their analysis. In this
case it was munin with apparently an rrdtool backend.
I've been graphing Icecast listener statistics now for years using mrtg.
(I've some files online and also mentioned info on the mailinglist
before). In addition i use webalizer with streaming patches from time to
time if I need data mining of logfiles.


Cheers

Thomas

PS: What you refer to as traffic is what I call listener statistics.
Traffic is bandwith per time etc not number of listeners in my
understanding.