Re: nft show counter

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@public-files.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i want to read counters defined in nftables, but have not found a solid way to do this
> 
> nft list table ip filter
> 
> shows me the rules from specific table with all chains, rules and counters, e.g.
> 
> 	chain voip1 {
> 		counter packets 3226 bytes 780864 accept
> 	}
> 
> 	chain voip2 {
> 		counter packets 1640 bytes 119449 accept
> 	}
> 
> this needs to be parsed with grep/sed/awk, so maybe there is an easier way to read the counters. found nothing in manpage or google, so i just ask here. maybe there is a way to show the last x min traffic. i need this to check if connections is "alive"

You could use a named counter and then fetch it via 'nft list counter
inet tablenam countername'.