Mbps is megabits per second. You need one million bits per second per megabit per second, but… observium graphs will show you mbps (as “M”) as soon as you’re doing enough traffic for it to be counted in mbps instead of bits, because they scale automatically, no?

CE won’t show you billing-accuracy 95^th data for monthly graphs, but it’ll be vaguely right most of the time. If you have pro, set up a bill under traffic accounting to get accurate data.

30TB if you use it evenly will be under 100mbps, yes, but if you spend more than ~36 hours a month doing more than 100mbps, you’ll get billed for more usage.

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Talk Jesus
Sent: 22 July 2015 18:20
To: observium@observium.org
Subject: [Observium] Question about traffic graphs

Hi,

My data center bills me based on 95^th percentile and Mbps, but Observium shows traffic as bits/second.

My monthly allowance is 100Mbps, how would I convert that to the bits/second in 95^th? They also state they bill me on bandwidth utilization, not data used.

Finally, they state they use 5 minute intervals for data collection, I guess that’s also called ‘polling’ if I’m not mistaken? I could not find any info on how often the data is collected.

Just to clarify, if I got the calculation right – 100Mbps = 30TB /mo (rounded off).