Dear Philip

Philip Homburg  wrote:
>                 On 2019/05/04 14:18 , M. Tajbakhsh wrote:
> > By the way, has anyone noticed the drastic increase in the traffic
> > consumed by the probes recently?
> > Isn't it another cause for that abadonment?
> 
> Do you have example of probes where that happened?
>  This is not about one or two of the probes. Dealing with the first pack, I measured the traffic and it was not more than 200 MB per month for each probe, which was quite negligible. Now, it is nearly ~1.6 GB/month, probably following a drastic increase in number of UDM's to 200+ per probe.

> On the main probe page there is a setting to limit the bandwidth that
> can be used by the probe. Click the edit button next to 'General
> Information'.
> 
> The mechanism is not perfect, but in areas where people are sensitive to
> bandwidth use, it may be worth making probe hosts aware of this option.
> I have tried setting that to smaller values, as well. Still, probes can consume a big bulk of bytes just by a continuous monthly traffic of 5 kbps. Not a big deal for some of hosts in practice, yet setting the bandwidth low doesn't help if some people have issues with those few gigabytes "swallowed" by these honorable guests, or if they are concerned about missing more.

Number of connected probes has not grown as expected during last few years, putting up to 4 times of measurement load on active ones. I am personally happy seeing that on a single device, but hosts may not be that happy.
Regards,
M.