How to Monitor Realtime Network Traffic in Ubuntu / Debian /Mint

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Roy s
erlang and dependencies

Question: How to Monitor Realtime Network Traffic in Ubuntu / Debian /Mint  ?

Answer:

What you need to do is to install ifstat tool,  from terminal run the following command

sudo apt-get install ifstat

Now  run ifstat

$ifstat
Output
eth0               wlan0               vmnet1              vmnet8
KB/s in  KB/s out   KB/s in  KB/s out   KB/s in  KB/s out   KB/s in  KB/s out
1.29      1.74      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00 29.08     28.83      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00