Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

watch -n 1 "sudo asterisk -vvvvvrx 'core show channels' | grep call"

Show active calls as the happen on an Asterisk server. Note that the Asterisk command (in single quotes) is formatted for Asterisk 1.6. Use the -n flag on the watch command to modify the refresh period (in seconds - default is 2 seconds).

Sample Output

3 active calls
72 calls processed

By: mheadd

2010-03-26 15:42:13

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Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

This handles when you have a single call or channel. Other commands will strip out the result if there is a single channel or call active because the output changes the noun to be singular instead of plural. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Every 1.0s: asterisk -vvvvvrx 'core show channels' | egrep "(call|channel)"                                Wed Aug 29 06:38:08 2012

1 active channel
2 active calls
82 calls processed
```
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watch "asterisk -vvvvvrx 'core show channels' | egrep \"(call|channel)\""

rowshi · 2012-08-29 13:40:45 6
Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

Only the number of calls nothing else. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
3
```
1

/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'core show channels' | grep -m1 "call" | cut -d' ' -f1

stackoverflow128 · 2012-02-01 17:55:17 6
Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

Works on asterisk 1.8.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

asterisk -rx "core show calls" | grep "active" | cut -d' ' -f1

Kouri · 2012-08-15 19:42:30 5
Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

watch "asterisk -vvvvvrx 'core show channels verbose'"

qboney · 2016-01-18 15:16:16 10
Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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watch -n 5 "asterisk -rx 'core show calls' | grep active"

vperalta · 2017-02-14 15:05:44 16

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