View monthly traffic on mikrotik?

Question

VPN

Because of the war between the RKN and Telegram, it became extremely inconvenient to work with the Internet - one site does not open, then another. And if it opens, it slows down because of all sorts of google webstatic and other things.
I myself get by with a browser extension, but it’s more difficult with office employees. It was decided to bring traffic outside the Russian Federation.
But vpn is paid based on the amount of traffic consumed. Can I somehow immediately see how much traffic the interface had in a month on Mikrotik? Or set up Netflow Analyzer?

Answer 1

It is better to set up a netflow analyzer. Router - it can reboot, and then all statistics from the interface will be lost ....

Answer 2

I dare to add to Wexter 's answer - you can put a script in the Mikrotik scheduler that will send a traffic report to the mail once a month and reset the counter on this forward rule.
I also used this solution for my home - the database of ILV locks is regularly uploaded to the server, an AddressList is formed from it and placed in Mikrotik. Mikrotik in VPN wraps traffic only for the given AddressList.

Answer 3

In the firewall, set a rule to accept forward from / to the local network (or use the existing ones) and clear the statistics once a month, the traffic will be shown there

Answer 4

Because of the war between the RKN and Telegram, it became extremely inconvenient to work with the Internet - one site does not open, then another. And if it opens, it slows down because of all sorts of google webstatic and other things.

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