I installed netspeed but it seems that run only on gnome desktop is there another internet traffic monitor for ubuntu?
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System Monitor (gnome-system-monitor) has a "basic" internet usage meter
It gets reset to 0 on every reboot, and doesn't provide much detail
I would advise using others suggested in the answers
vnstat works well for me...
sudo apt install vnstat
to run in terminal
vnstat
vnstat for monthly and estimated
https://www.spinup.com/getting-started-with-vnstat-on-ubuntu-18-04/ make it active on startup
sudo systemctl enable vnstat.service
it even does an estimate of the monthly usage... next step is to get it into the top bar, there are extensions that can get text up there