You may need to monitor your network bandwidth usage daily, which nload will help you make your job easier as this tool manages network usage. It is a command-line tool to monitor bandwidth and network traffic in real-time. You can view two graphs for incoming and outgoing traffic, minimum/ maximum for network usage and transferred data.
Please refer to the following steps to use the nload network monitoring tool –
1. First, update the Ubuntu system with this command –
apt-get update -y
2. Next, install nload with this command –
apt-get install nload -y
3. Run the below-mentioned command for Centos or RHEL –
dnf install nload -y
4. You can see all the options regarding nload with this command –
nload –help
5. You can run the nload command below to monitor your networking devices –
nload
6. You can view the monitoring screen for the nload command with the following shortcuts –
| F2 | Use to view option window |
| F5 | Use to view current settings |
| F6 | Use to load setting through the config file |
| q | Run to exit from the nload console. |
7. Use the command nload -m to display all the network interfaces in the same graph.
nload -m
8. By default, the refresh interval time is set to 700. However, you can use the nload -t command to change the interval time.
nload -t 200
9. You can also monitor the network traffic of a specific device using the below command.
nload devices eth0
