How to determine bandwidth used by cron job?

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I'm not a unix guy. CPanel does a good job of managing cronjobs and that is what I used to run dozens of cronjobs. All of them combined run more than 5000 times every day. Every cron makes a call to an external API.

How can I check how much bandwidth are all the cron jobs eating? For my website I use awstats and that shows bandwidth usage et al.

Another thing is that I dont want the admins to ban the cron jobs because they are using too much bandwidth (and CPU), more than what is allocated in my web hosting package.

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