how can I monitor device traffic through my basic station gateway?

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Hi,

Is there a way to monitor from Balena console the traffic going through my gateway?

I can see this interactively on the The Things Network console for the gateway but I would like an API to log which devices are poassing traffic through my gateway.

As the TTN beams map for the gateway has some surprising device traffic

Kind regards,
Tony

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Hello @kilnageer

from the gateway is not possible to read the traffic but I guess you can detect the LoRa traffic through the gateway. The problem is to understand if that traffic is correct or not (belongs to TTN, etc.) or it is just noise (or LoRaWAN messages to another LNS) that is detected in the same band but discarded at the LNS.

Not sure how I can help you here!

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Hi @kilnageer
Any LNS like The Things Network will give you data about the devices provisioned on the server, but your gateways will likely receive and forward packets from devices from different networks.
The only way I know of (in a running gateway) is to monitor the logs for RX packets and get the data out of them (DevAddr for uplinks or DevEUi for JoinReq).

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