Linux monitor the number of connections on a given port

Linux monitor the number of connections on a given port

# below example is a shell script which logs the number of connections every 30 seconds


#!/bin/bash
if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
        echo "Please provide the port number for which you want to monitor the connection count as the one and only argument!"
        exit
fi
while true; do
    crtDate=`date`
    crtConnectionCount=`netstat -a -n | grep "$1" | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l`
    crtLine="$crtDate Connection count: $crtConnectionCount"
    echo $crtLine >> connections_port_$1.txt
    sleep 30
done

An even better script:

#!/bin/bash

# provides the connection counts to all ports specified as args in the console and also to file connections_{datetime_of_start}.txt
# to start in background run: ./monitor_connections.sh 18080 28080 3306 1389 27017 &>/dev/null &

if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
        echo "Please provide the port numbers to monitor as args to this shell script!"
        exit
fi

resultsFileName=connections_`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.txt
echo "You can follow the console, but results are also added to: $resultsFileName from the current folder."
while true; do
    crtDate=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
    logLine="$crtDate%2s"
    for portNumber in "$@"
        do
            allConnections=`sudo lsof -i :"$portNumber" |wc -l | tr -d '[:space:]'`
            activeConnections=`sudo lsof -i :"$portNumber" | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l | tr -d '[:space:]'`
            logLine="$logLine $portNumber: $allConnections/$activeConnections%*s"
        done
    printf "$logLine\n"
    printf "$logLine\n" >> $resultsFileName
    sleep 5
done