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Learning the ntopng Lua API
ntopng is open source, that means you can read its code and modify it according to the GPL license. The current ntopng architecture is based on three layers where the top one is written in Lua and it...
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Introducing ntopng Edge (nEdge): Monitoring, Service Segmentation and...
The network edge, either wired or wireless, is becoming increasingly important as most things now happen there being the place where devices are deployed. Security-wise, central firewalls are too far...
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Network Traffic and Security Monitoring Using ntopng and InfluxDB
Yesterday our friends at InfluxData organised a meetup at their HQ in San Francisco, CA. For all those who have been unable to attend the event, these are the presentation slides so you can learn more...
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Cloud, IoT, sFlow Traffic Monitoring Tutorials #SFUS18
Last week we have presented two tutorials at the Sharkfest US 2018 edition: sFlow: Theory and practice of a sampling technology [ slides ] Packet monitoring in the days of IoT and Cloud [ slides ] We...
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How to accelerate Bro with PF_RING FT
We discussed many times about the large quantity of work IDSs have to carry on, and the high CPU load they require, this is the case of Suricata due to the thousands of rules that need to be evaluated...
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ntopng and Time Series: From RRD to InfluxDB, new charts with Time Shift
One of the main concern of our users is the ability to scale ntopng with a large number of hosts/protocols and hence how to scale time series. As already discussed, RRD has many limitations with the...
View ArticleIntroducing per-Second Measurements in nProbe Flow Exports
The need to perform on-time and per-second traffic measurements clashes with protocols such as NetFlow where all counters are cumulative with respect to the flow lifetime. So if you have a flow that...
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Introducing @ntop_community Telegram Group
While tools like github and mailing lists can serve developers and experts, sometimes people look for a quick help. For this reason we have create a new Telegram group called @ntop_community that you...
View ArticleIntroducing n2n 2.4
As announced some months ago, we have resumed the development of n2n, a peer-to-peer VPN we developed some year ago to ease the access to remote ntop installations behind firewalls, that then evolved...
View ArticleIntroducing nDPI 2.4
This is to announce the release of nDPI 2.4 that is an incremental release mainly introducing the concept of categories in addition to new dissectors and bug fixes. In a nutshell in order to limit the...
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Say hello to ntopng and nEdge 3.6: Timeseries with TimeShift and InfluxDB
ntopng 3.6 release is paving the way to metrics-based traffic analysis. We have finally put ntopng on top of a timeseries-independent layer that allowed us to currently RRD and InfluxDB and in the...
View ArticleWorkshop and Training: 20 Years of ntop
This is a message for the Italian speaking community willing to attend our 20 years of ntop workshop that will take place in Pisa, Italy, where ntop was born. If there is somebody willing to help us...
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Best Practices for the Collection of Flows with ntopng and nProbe
ntopng can be used to visualize traffic data that has been generated or collected by nProbe. Using ntopng with nProbe is convenient in several scenarios, including: The visualization of NetFlow/sFlow...
View ArticleIntroducing nProbe 8.6: Per-Second Measurements and Collection of Proprietary...
We are glad to announce the release of nProbe 8.6 stable release. Among the main new features, this release brings: Per-second measurements of flows traffic Ability to collect proprietary (i.e. using...
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Using nProbe and ntopng for Collecting and Visualizing Sonicwall Flows
nProbe is both a probe and a NetFlow/sFlow collector. Recently, we’ve also added added the ability to collect flows with proprietary information elements. This greatly improves nProbe flexibility as...
View ArticleSecuring ntopng with SSL and Let’s Encrypt
As you know ntopng web interface supports both HTTP (default) and HTTPS. The reason why ntopng does not default to HTTPS is because we provide self-signed certificates that web browsers dislike....
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Promoting Traffic Visibility: from Application Protocols to Traffic...
Often we receive emails asking question like: “how many protocols nDPI supports?”, “how do you position nDPI against commercial DPI toolkit A, B, C?”. Although these questions are reasonable, they do...
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20 Years of ntop: The Conference
Last Friday Oct 26th, at the University of Pisa we have celebrated 20 years of ntop open source code development and hacking culture. It has been a success with over 110 registered people, and 24...
View ArticleUsing nProbe for Collecting Ixia IPFIX with IxFlow extensions
Ixia allows to enrich IPFIX records with value-add extensions. Additional information that can be exported, along with standard fields such as source and destination IP addresses, include: Geographical...
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sFlow Collection and Analysis with nProbe and ntopng
sFlow, short for sampled Flow, is a sampling technology designed to export network devices information, namely: Interface counters (à la SNMP MIB-II); Traffic packets (à la ERSPAN). sFlow agents run on...
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