FOSDEM 2021 has been an awesome event. For the first time in its history, the event was fully virtual with multiple parallel live streams. According to the infrastructure statistics, it had about 8,000 visitors of which about 5,000 were watching … Continue reading
Join FOSDEM 2021 ntop sessions, Sat-Sun Feb 6-7th (online)
We are proud to announce that a couple of talks have been accepted at FOSDEM 2021, one of the most important FOSS conferences in the world that this yar will take place online due to the pandemic. In the Network … Continue reading
ntopng, InfluxDB and Grafana: A Step-By-Step Guide to Create Dashboards
Creating Grafana dashboards out of ntopng data basically boils down to: Configuring ntopng to export timeseries data to InfluxDB Configuring the Grafana InfluxDB datasource to extract timeseries data from InfluxDB Adding Grafana Dashboards panels with ntopng data This post aims … Continue reading
Say Hello to ntopng 4.2: Flexible Alerting, Major Speedup, Scada, Cybersecurity
We are pleased to introduce ntopng 4.2 that introduces several new features and breakthroughs while consolidating the changes introduced with 4.0. The main goals of this release include Enhance and simplify how alerts are delivered to consumers Many internal components … Continue reading
September Webinars: ntopng Scripting and API Integrations
Save the date! Two webinars have been planned for the cycle of this month. We start on Thursday, September 17th, 16:00 CEST / 10 AM EST, with “How to Write an ntopng Plugin“. In this workshop, we will see how … Continue reading
How Attack Mitigation Works (via SNMP)
One of the greatest strengths of ntopng is its ability to correlate data originating at different layers and at multiple sources together. For example, ntopng can look at IP packets, Ethernet frames and, at the same time, poll SNMP devices. … Continue reading
ntopng 4.0: A Refreshed Look with Dark Themes!
The latest ntopng 4.0 has a renewed look. The main changes we have introduced are: An always-on-top status bar. Key information on the health and status of the network is essential for the analyst and it must be always visible … Continue reading
Active Monitoring in ntopng 4.0: ICMP, ICMPv6, HTTP and HTTPS pings with RTT
The latest stable ntopng 4.0 features a Round Trip Time (RTT) monitor which is capable of pinging hosts on a minute-by-minute basis to check: IP reachability with ICMP and ICMPv6 pings Web servers functionality with HTTP and HTTPS pings Checks … Continue reading
Say Hello To ntopng 4.0: Cybersecurity, Scripting… and a New User Interface
After over one year of work, we’re proud to announce you that ntopng 4.0 is finally out. In this time we have redesigned ntopng for speed and openness, by breaking apart the existing monolithic C++ engine into a Lua-scriptable micro-engine. … Continue reading
Important Geolocation Changes in ntop Products
ntop products have been using geolocation databases provided by MaxMind for a long time, to augment network IP addresses with geographical coordinates (cities, countries) and information on the Autonomous Systems. ntop have been freely packaging and redistributing such databases in … Continue reading