vnstat for webservers

This is quickly becoming one of my favourite tools when setting up webservers, after discovering it recently. I have all sorts of monitoring set up and use munin a lot, but vnstat seems to be a very lightweight daemon which gives you insight into the traffic to and from your box. Best of all it integrates well with logwatch, so it will send you a quick report every day so you can see immediately if something is going wrong.

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