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I'm trying to find logs of host addresses my computer has connected with over time as well as the corresponding counts of sent/received bytes for each of these connections. For example, the nettop command line tool shows readout of network connection addresses and data transfer rates, which refreshes every couple of seconds:

                                                               interface           state        bytes in       bytes out   rx dupe    rx ooo     re-tx   rtt avg   rcvsize    tx win
Dropbox.365                                                                                     4928 KiB        3340 KiB  4498 B      13 KiB  6832 B
    tcp4 192.168.1.101:50635<->162.125.33.7:443                      en0       CloseWait        3784 B          1681 B       0 B       0 B       0 B    87.75 ms   128 KiB    32 KiB
    tcp4 192.168.1.101:50605<->162.125.4.3:443                       en0       CloseWait          16 KiB         941 B    1005 B       0 B       0 B     8.62 ms   128 KiB    30 KiB

I'm looking for files containing this same information logged over time, e.g., the complete set of network connection addresses and data transfers for the past 24 hours -- or the past week. Does the Mac OSX system maintain long term logs of such network activity?

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    I'd be somewhat surprised if it did (unless you have some third-party firewall software). Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 5:37
  • @grawity So do you think nettop just grabs a sample from from the connection traffic without saving anything then? Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 5:50
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    Yes, that's exactly what it does. Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 6:38

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