##Broker Status
Clients can find information about the broker by subscribing to topics in the $SYS hierarchy as follows. Topics marked as static are only sent once per client on subscription. All other topics are updated every sys_interval seconds. If sys_interval is 0, then updates are not sent.
Note that if you are using a command line client to interact with the $SYS topics and your shell interprets $ as an environment variable, you need to place the topic in single quotes '$SYS/...' or to escape the dollar symbol: $SYS/... otherwise the $SYS will be treated as an environment variable.
$SYS/broker/bytes/received
The total number of bytes received since the broker started.
$SYS/broker/bytes/sent