Hi all, this is to invite all of your to the How ntop built their high-speed Web-based traffic analysis and flow collection with the use of InfluxDB webinar, organised by our friends at InfluxData. The event will take place May 29th at 8AM PST (5PM CET). I will be talking about traffic monitoring and timeseries, why […]
Using nProbe for Collecting Palo Alto Flows
NOTE: This article is outdated. Please see “Collecting Proprietary Flows with nProbe” for learning how to collect proprietary Palo Alto flows. nProbe is both a probe and a NetFlow/sFlow collector. As you all know, we have recently added the ability to collect flows with proprietary information elements. However we natively support in nProbe popular flow […]
Welcome to ntopng 3.4: Improved Alerts/SNMP/Asset Discovery, InfluxDB/Prometheus Support
We’re happy to announce the release of ntopng 3.4 that introduces several enhancements and new features, some of which will be finalised in 3.6 due later this year. This version consolidates several months of work and paves the way to more radical changes planned for the next release. In particular beta features present in this […]
Introducing nProbe 8.4: New Metrics and Extensions, Improved Kafka Support
This is to announce the release of nProbe 8.4 that introduces enhanced Kafka support and adds various extensions and stability fixes. We encourage all our users to move to this version. Below you can find the complete application changelog. Enjoy ! Main New Features Implements Kafka batching, options parsing, and variable number of producers Adds […]
Released nDPI 2.2.2: 7 New Protocols, Many Improvements
This is to announce a minor nDPI release update that adds a few fixes and introduces support for popular cloud protocols such as Google and Apple push service. Below you can find the complete changelog. Enjoy! Main New Features Initial experimental Hyperscan support ndpi_get_api_version API call to be used in applications that are dynamically linking […]
Introducing Multi-language Support in ntopng
Traditionally all ntop tools have manuals and user interface in English. As sometimes our users are not really familiar with it, we have decided to introduce user interface translation of the user interface so that we can make those users more comfortable when using ntopng. As the moment we have added support for Italian and […]
Traffic directions, port mirrors and taps
Network taps have the ability to preserve traffic directions as based on the port you’re monitoring it is possible to know id traffic is going A -> B or B->A. With port mirrors you completely loose this information (this unless you creare a port mirror per direction, not always possible on all network switches) as […]
Is 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 the code on various OS releases and implementations. This is what I found out. The testbed was […]
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 releases), and the new NxN user interface to monitor the status of all ntop applications running on distributed appliances in a single place and facilitate centralized management. The […]
Using 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 source and can be found on github. Enjoy!