On macOS, open Activity Monitor and click on the Network tab. While viewing network usage, look for unfamiliar processes or applications consistently sending or receiving data in the background.

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There’s no easy way to log this data automatically though, so you’ll have to run Activity Monitor regularly and manually note down the figures you see, to check for performance issues over time.