ntopng was initially designed as a tool for realtime network traffic monitoring. The idea was to create a DPI-based tool able to report traffic statistics. Overtime we have added the ability to implement active monitoring checks, SNMP, and various other … Continue reading
Infrastructure Monitoring: Observing The Health and Status of Multiple ntopng Instances
Introduction Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal). In other words: who will guard the guards themselves? If you use ntopng to monitor your network, you also need to make sure ntopng is monitored as in case of failure, ntopng will not … Continue reading
NetFlow Collection Performance Using ntopng and nProbe
Introduction ntopng, in combination with nProbe, can be used to collect NetFlow. Their use for NetFlow collection is described in detail here. In this post we measure the performance of nProbe and ntopng when used together to collect, analyze, and … Continue reading
nProbe IPS: How To setup an Inline Layer-7 Traffic Policer in 5 Minutes
Introduction Recently, we have added Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) capabilities to our nProbe. Those capabilities are available starting from the latest 9.5 version, both for Linux and FreeBSD – including OPNsense and pfSense, and are available with all nProbe versions … Continue reading
How Attackers and Victims Detection works in ntopng
In recent ntopng versions, alerts have been significantly enriched with metadata useful to understand network and security issues. In this post, we focus on the “Attacker” and “Victim” metadata, used to enrich flow alerts and label hosts. Specifically, the client … Continue reading
FOSDEM 2021 – Retrospective
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