# total connections

**URL:** <https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710>\
**Category:** ADC - Application Delivery\
**Created:** [April 2, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710 "2022-04-02T09:12:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![huzhiqi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@huzhiqi](https://community.a10networks.com/u/huzhiqi)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710/1 "2022-04-02T09:12:09Z")

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I want to see the total number of connections per VS server in a period of time in A10, how to view ?(for example, what is the total number of connections per IP in the past month)

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**Author:** ![escgate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/51bf81/32.png) [@escgate](https://community.a10networks.com/u/escgate)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710/2 "2022-04-03T11:06:45Z")

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Hi Huzhiqi,

We can check the number of connections of a VIP as below. But I cannot find the way for the number of connections based on the specific past month…  
I think that ACOS 4.x and above do not have that kind of feature.

 ![image.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/a10_community/original/1X/60771ab9868ec8b301f0f5dba08294e710b7183e.png)

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**Author:** ![escgate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/51bf81/32.png) [@escgate](https://community.a10networks.com/u/escgate)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710/3 "2022-04-03T23:19:00Z")

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Hmm.

Although it does not match your goal, how about the min, max and avg connections of a VIP?  
Sorry for not being of any help.

 ![image.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/a10_community/original/1X/dece41fa49cf2e4021b4eafc8d4136c72263f816.png)

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**Author:** ![invia\_itops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@invia\_itops](https://community.a10networks.com/u/invia_itops)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710/4 "2022-06-08T19:46:38Z")

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If you’re using something like icinga or nagios you could get those values via SNMP or the API and graph them accordingly.

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**Author:** ![john\_allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@john\_allen](https://community.a10networks.com/u/john_allen)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/total-connections/710/5 "2022-06-09T18:54:06Z")

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With Thunder v5.2.x and above, support for Prometheus is built in! Using Prometheus to extract the data, you can then use Grafana to chart the total connections over time. Here is an example:  
[https://community.a10networks.com/discussion/16860/application-network-visibility-using-the-prometheus-and-a10-thunder](https://community.a10networks.com/discussion/16860/application-network-visibility-using-the-prometheus-and-a10-thunder)