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I have a lot of traffic while running a full node. Is it normal?
https://ibb.co/jD8H9S

If your node is not a pruned node (i.e archival node), then it serves historical blocks to new nodes on the network to help them bootstrap.
Which is why your upload bandwidth is high.

Assuming your node is not a pruned node and does allow incoming transactions (which is vital for contributing to the network health), yes. This is 'normal' traffic.
If thats too much traffic for you, you could disable the incoming connections.
But keep in mind that if you disable incoming connections your node basically just relays transactions. No blocks are shared with the rest of the network.
In this case you would just have a wallet which needs a lot of space on your hard drive. If you are not into contributing to the network health you can also use a pruned node (if you don't need the historical data).

ok thank you. I am in fact forwarding the port so I do have outgoing traffic. But I thought maybe I did something wrong as its a lot of data. No limit on my bandwidth and also its a spare pc so not a big problem. Thank you for your answers.

In addition, there's an almost complete information about running a full node on https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node (https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node).
It's worth the while if you got any other questions.

From the link (a little bit late):Indicates a heavy (mostly upload) traffic.