Month Archives: September 2017

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Announcing ntopng and Grafana Integration

Disclaimer This article is outdated: please see this document for using ntopng with grafana This is to announce the release of the ntopng Grafana datasource that you can find on the grafana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 of clicks. To set up the datasource visit Grafana Datasources page and select the green button Add a datasource. Select ntopng as the datasource Type in the page that opens. The HTTP url must point to a running ntopng instance, …
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20 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 that was clearly a dead end (whoever used FTAM to download a file and compared it with FTP/NFS or drag-and-drop on a Mac desktop, understands what I mean), even for me that just graduated from university. My initial idea behind ntop was to create a simple tool able to enable network visibility without having …