# Getting accurate bandwidth usage per application

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/getting-accurate-bandwidth-usage-per-application/33784>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [September 9, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/getting-accurate-bandwidth-usage-per-application/33784 "2015-09-09T19:07:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jules\_Bloem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jules\_Bloem](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jules_Bloem)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/getting-accurate-bandwidth-usage-per-application/33784/1 "2015-09-09T19:07:28Z")

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Hi,

Im looking into ways to get accurate bandwidth usage of applications for a month or longer.

I know I can get the current bandwidt usages with the REST api with /monitoring/current and monitor/historic. As I have read into the docs the historic rest api does not give me data on a 5 second interval correct?

What are best practices to do this?? Logging the current bandwidht usage for every running application in a own database to get more specific results? So over time we have a use database with accurate stats?

Our goals is to set a limit in GB’s for a user when we create an application for them.

Would love to hear suggestions!

Jules

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/getting-accurate-bandwidth-usage-per-application/33784/2 "2015-10-02T15:12:24Z")

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Hi,

You can see accurate bandwidth usage graphs using the [statistics](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-monitor-server-connections-load-and-application-statistics) provided in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager.

Is using the Manager not possible for the checking of the bandwidth usage?

It could be possible to write a custom Module that edits the Application.xml and restarts it so that nothing can be published once a flag is checked, if that flag was based on a total current bandwidth check which could be on reset every month. Of course it would be a significant amount of work, so if required please see the [Find a consultant](http://community.wowza.com/c/-/7) forum.

Regards,

Jason

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**Author:** ![Jules\_Bloem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jules\_Bloem](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jules_Bloem)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/getting-accurate-bandwidth-usage-per-application/33784/3 "2015-10-21T09:33:49Z")

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Thanks for your response Jason,

Just another question. How accurate is the bandwidth usage over a month in the Wowza Statistics? I’m reading for the past 12 hours the sample rate is 5 seconds.

What about the sample rate for a month?

Would love to hear it!