Last weekend I wrote a simple program to store traffic statistics (packets and bytes for both input and output) for port 80 of my new web server. Actually, any pcap filter expression can be used, I just happen to only be tracking port 80 at the moment. I save data every 5 minutes.
This weekend I spent a little time writing an application using Wt to graph the traffic data. The graph works, but it needs some cleanup. In the process, I wound up making some changes to the Wt::Chart classes because it didn’t let me use the desired colors for axis labels, titles and legend text. I’ll have to check these changes into my repository so I can diff them and send a patch to the Wt author.
I now just need some utility classes and functions to allow graphing various time periods of interest.