How can I check the hit count for each rule in iptables?

Question

I want to know how can I find out which rule was accessed and how many times, from the access list I have created using iptables.

My firewall has over 1000 input and ou

Answer 1

You can also use collectds iptables module to aggregate the counters:

https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Iptables