Any way to view gateway activity stats?

Gateways
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I’m in Southern California and am wondering whether any of the gateways in the area see any activity. Is there anywhere I can look at any stats, like number of packets forwarded per day or month?

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If you need something like below, you will need to build it yourself, or TTI account

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WHat do you mean by “build it yourself”? Is there an API to get the data?

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AFAIK there is no way to view gateway stats from other gateways than your own. TTNMapper is somewhat of an indication (under Advanced Maps you can select a given gateway and date range as well), but that does only show nodes with GNSS, that are actively forwarding to TTNMapper, which is by no means a definitive way of telling activity. There could be thousands of active devices on a gateway that do not show up on the map.

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If you refer to the extensive documentation their is a section on API.

If you want stats you need to build your own “monitoring”.

Any gateway, mine, yours or theirs.

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There is an API you can use to get some information.
An example URL is https://mapper.packetbroker.net/api/v2/gateways/netID=000013,tenantID=ttn,id=g-s3-testgw011a-pi3-831no1-hp10
Replace the string after id= with gateway id which you can find on the TTN map.(https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/map zoom is your friend as multiple gateways in an area might otherwise not show)

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Where is the API detailed in the Getting Started section you linked to?

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Thanks much! Could not possibly have found this by browsing the docs…
Some indoor gateways show rxRates of 36 to 76 pkts/sec, how is that possible? I mean, do those people have hundreds of devices stashed in their building? It’s also not documented over what period the rates are averaged.

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Yeah, just try to find the info about rxRate starting from that page if you don’t already know exactly what you’re looking for!

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It is the approximate average rate per hour calculated over an period of 10 min (something to that effect were the explanation of this figure)

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Nope, still can’t see it in getting started …

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The swagger docs say:

          "rxRate": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Received message rate (messages per second)",
            "minimum": 0
          },
          "txRate": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Transmitted message rate (messages per second)",
            "minimum": 0
          }

So you’re saying the docs (https://mapper.packetbroker.net/api/v2/openapi.json) are wrong and it’s a per-hour rate (which is a lot more believable).

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Physics, mostly electromagnetic radiation.

Sure, why not. And/or maybe not all their devices but also the buildings next door that are in range.

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Sorry it is average over a 6 min period.

Please ask the boss his explanation.

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Indeed the packet rates are per hour, not per second, the OpenAPI documentation is wrong. We’ll fix that.

They’re observed over a random interval between 8 and 12 minutes, so roughly 6 data points per hour. We don’t show history.

Advanced gateway activity stats (uplink/downlink traffic over time, channel utilization, RSSI per channel, packets per data rate, round-trip times) are available in the NOC, part of The Things Stack Cloud and Enterprise.

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