Monitoring IoT and Fog Computing: Challenges and Solutions
Since last year we are designing a solution for monitoring IoT and Fog computing devices. This is becoming a hot argument since they are more and more used to create large Internet attacks and also...
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Monitoring Network Devices with ntopng and SNMP
Summary SNMP is widely used for network monitoring. Being able to remotely monitor network devices is fundamental to have a clear picture of present and past network health. ntopng systematically...
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Detecting and Fighting Ransomware Using ntopng (yes including WannaCry)
These days many people are talking about ransomware and in particular of the problems created by WannaCry. Some ntop users contacted us asking if they could use our tools for detecting and stopping...
View ArticleWebinar: Security Monitoring with 1:1 NetFlow and 100% Packet Capture
Thu May 23rd and 25th together with Napatech we have organised two webinars about monitoring network traffic using flow-based technologies. We will be talking about 100 Gbit network traffic monitoring....
View ArticleSay hello to nDPI 2.0 (with wireshark integration)
nDPI 2.0 is a major release that: Consolidates the API, in particular for guessing new protocols or notifying nDPI that for a given flow there are no more packets to dissect. Introduces nDPI support...
View ArticleFilling the Pipe: Exporting ntopng Flows to Logstash
Logstash comes in very handy when it is necessary to manipulate or augment data before the actual consolidation. Typical examples of augmentation include IP address to customer ID mappings and...
View ArticleIntroducing ntopng 3.0
If you have enjoyed ntopng 2.x, we believe you will like 3.0 even more as we have worked for almost one year to this release. We have modified many things, improved security in ntopng (in the...
View ArticleIntroducing nProbe 8.0, the ntopng flow companion
The current nProbe 8.0 release contains many changes with respect to the 7.x series. We have optimised the code, added the ability to collect non standard fields (e.g. Cisco AVC), improved Kafka...
View ArticleIntegrating ntopng with Grafana
Last week the NYC Metrics and Monitoring meetup invited ntop to give a talk. The topic was how to open ntopng so that it can become a gateway for producing network metrics that could be used by popular...
View ArticleHow to Enhance Wireshark with DPI, latency measurement and more
This week at Sharkfest US 17, we have presented the ntop contributions to wireshark. In particular: How to use nDPI to complement Wireshark traffic classification How to remote capture on a remote box...
View ArticleHow to Monitor and Troubleshoot an Unfamiliar Network
At ntop we use wireshark to dissect traffic and to learn how to make our tools better. We’re not typical packet-oriented users however, as we want to see traffic as a whole and not packet-by-packet....
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How to use ntopng for Realtime Traffic Analysis on Fritz!Box Routers
Fritz!Box routers are popular devices that many people use to connect to the Internet. Inside these routers there is a hidden (i.e. not accessible from the router web admin page, but that you access...
View ArticleNetwork Monitoring Deep Dive: Interview with Scott Schweitzer
In early August, Scott Schweitzer interviewed me about network monitoring and packet capture. The conversation has been very broad, and I have covered various topics ranging from packet capture,...
View ArticleWhen Live is not Enough: Connecting ntopng and nProbe via MySQL for...
Using nProbe in combination with ntopng is a common practice. The benefits of this combination are manyfold and include: A complete decoupling of monitoring activities (taking place on the nProbe) from...
View Article20 Years of ntop and Beyond
This month it’s 20 years that I have started the ntop project. Initially it was a hobby project, willing to understand what was really flowing on a network after having spent 5 years playing with OSI...
View ArticleAnnouncing ntopng and Grafana Integration
This is to announce the release of the ntopng Grafana datasource that you can find on the grafana website. Using this plugin you can create a Grafana dashboard that fetches data from ntopng in a matter...
View ArticleYou’re Invited to the ntop and Wireshark Users Group Meeting
On November 7th we will be organising the ntop meetup during the Sharkfest EU 2017 that will take place in Portugal. You can find all details here. This year we will be focusing on cybersecurity, IoT...
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ntopng Grafana Integration: The Beauty of Data Visualizazion
Summary Grafana is one of the most widely known platforms for metrics monitoring (and alerting); ntopng version 3.1 natively integrates with Grafana thanks to a datasource plugin which is freely...
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Introducing PF_RING 7.0 with Hardware Flow Offload
This is to announce a new PF_RING major release 7.0. In addition to many improvements to the capture modules, drivers upgrades, containers isolation, the main change of this release is the ability to...
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Network Device Discovery. Part 1: Active Discovery
Since its introduction in 1998, ntop(ng) has been a pure (well beside DNS address resolution if enabled) passive network monitoring tool. Recently we have complemented it with active device discovery...
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