Network 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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ntop User’s Group Meeting at Shakfest EU 2017
Those who have not been able to attend our ntop meeting at Sharkfest Europe 2017 can find our presentation slides below Sharkfest EU 2017 – Intro Sharkfest EU 2017 – hardware-flow-offload Sharkfest EU...
View Articlentop is Now Operational Again: We Apologise for the Inconvenience
Yesterday a major outage to our service provider has taken down many European websites including ntop (web and email). Our services are now operational again. We sincerely apologise for this issue. PS....
View ArticleUsing nDPI to Turn Wireshark Into a Traffic Monitoring Tools
Last week at Sharkfest EU we have shown how you can use nDPI and Lua scripting to turn Wireshark into a traffic monitoring tool. We remind you that all the ntop contributions to Wireshark are open...
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Implementing PF_RING-based Hardware Flow Offload in Suricata
Last month we have integrated hardware flow offload in PF_RING 7.0. This week Alfredo has presented at Suricon 2017 the integration of hardware flow offload with Suricata and demonstrated that with...
View ArticleAnnouncing nDPI 2.2
Today we are glad to release nDPI stable version 2.2. This minor release present several fixes and adds support for a handful of new protocols. It also features custom application categories to allow...
View ArticlenProbe 8.2 stable is out – A Wink At Next-Gen ASA Firewalls
We are pleased to announce that the new 8.2 release of nProbe is out. This release features full Cisco ASA NetFlow support. ASA are industry’s first threat-focused next-generation firewalls that export...
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Announcing ntopng 3.2 – The First Move Towards Active Network Monitoring
Today we are glad to announce the new 3.2 stable release of ntopng. Among the most important new features available in this release, there is without any doubt an advanced network devices discovery...
View ArticlePF_RING and Network Namespaces
Last week we made a couple of presentations at LinuxLab 2017 where we spoke about Containers, focusing on Network Namespaces support in PF_RING, and User and IoT-oriented Network Traffic Monitoring on...
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Introducing n2disk 3.0
This is to announce n2disk 3.0 that is more than a maintenance release, as it: Consolidates pre-existing functionalities Adds extraction security features that pave the way to GDPR support. Adds flow...
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Released nBox 2.6 Now Featuring a New Centralised Manager
This is to introduce a new nBox stable release 2.6, that includes many security enhancements, a reworked services management system to fully support systemd (available on latest CentOS/Ubuntu...
View ArticleNetwork Monitoring 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding ntop Tools
The first important step to start with network monitoring is to analyze what we want to monitor and how to deploy the monitoring solution in the existing network. Here are some important questions to...
View ArticleIntroducing nProbe Cento 1.4 with Hardware Flow Offload
This is to announce the new 1.4 stable release of nProbe cento. The most important feature that comes with this new version is definitely the support for hardware flow offloading as well as various bug...
View ArticleIs your Android phone safe? nDPI will tell you
Weeks ago I have added support for GoogleServices detection in nDPI and thus I wanted to test the code with real traffic. For this reason I started to play with a few Android phones in order to test...
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