The invention provides a suction type SF6 gas leakage monitoring device and method. The device comprises an air outlet (1), an air inlet (2), an infrared light supply (3), a window piece I (4), a window piece II (5), a reference spectral filter (6), a measuring spectral filter (7), a dual channel infrared detector (8), a temperature probe(9), a signal conditioning module (10), an A / D (Analog / Digital) conversion module (11), a data processing module (12), a light source driving module (13), a device body (14), an end cover I (15) and an end cover II (16). The invention provides the suction type SF6 gas leakage monitoring device and method have the advantages that the suction type SF6 gas leakage monitoring device has a digital output and thermal compensation function and is simple and reliable, and the sensitivity is high. The method and the device can carry out ration monitoring on SF6 leaking so as to externally output a high-precision SF6 leaking concentration value, and the method and the device have the advantages that the monitoring accuracy is high, the method and the device are stable and reliable, the structure is compact, the volume is small and exquisite and the like.