Can I see fancy network stats without a new router?

[steinooo]

Hi all,

I love the look of the stats in the ubiquiti routers, pfsense machines etc, but is there anyway of doing it without buying a new router?

I.e. I hear about packetbeat as part of the elastic stack, but is it possible to get all network traffic mirrored using a big standard home router?

I'm keen to tinker, not as keen to spend money

 

[the-evaluator]

What stats are you wanting to see? TBH a lot of a status that UniFi reports are garbage anyway so I woudn't worry too much about them. Their DPI figures are particularly ignorable.

If you have a suitable switch then you could mirror the port that uplinks to your router to a different port. But why would you want to do that?

 

[steinooo]

What stats are you wanting to see? TBH a lot of a status that UniFi reports are garbage anyway so I woudn't worry too much about them. Their DPI figures are particularly ignorable.

If you have a suitable switch then you could mirror the port that uplinks to your router to a different port. But why would you want to do that?

I want to see what type of traffic is going where for some nerdy graphs with the (probably futile) hope that I can set some alerting for anything suspicious.

E.g. what type of traffic my Chinese home automation gear is sending where and when

I do have a few business Cisco switches knocking around I could use for experimenting.

As for why, just an insight into my network and to play around , learn elastic stack, just because really, bit of a play around, bit of fun