How can I monitor outbound traffic from my Linode?
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The outbound traffic from my Linode is very high and I would like to know more about the traffic. What commands or logs can I check?
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One good way to check the current outbound traffic on your Linode is the following command:
sudo netstat -nputw
If you find that most of the traffic is HTTP, you can find more information by tcpdumping the traffic for a bit.
Step 1: Start dumping the traffic
sudo tcpdump -i any -w /tmp/http.log &
Step 2: Run your application or test your webpage
Step 3: Stop tcpdump
sudo killall tcpdump
Step 4: read the log file
sudo tcpdump -A -r /tmp/http.log | less
You may want to look over Daniel Miessler's tcpdump Primer with Examples for more information on tcpdump and the wealth of options available.