This is a message for the Italian speaking community willing to attend our 20 years of ntop workshop that will take place in Pisa, Italy, where ntop was born. If there is somebody willing to help us organise a ntop … Continue reading
Say hello to ntopng and nEdge 3.6: Timeseries with TimeShift and InfluxDB
ntopng 3.6 release is paving the way to metrics-based traffic analysis. We have finally put ntopng on top of a timeseries-independent layer that allowed us to currently RRD and InfluxDB and in the future other backends. This means that you … Continue reading
Introducing nDPI 2.4
This is to announce the release of nDPI 2.4 that is an incremental release mainly introducing the concept of categories in addition to new dissectors and bug fixes. In a nutshell in order to limit the number of custom protocols … Continue reading
Introducing n2n 2.4
As announced some months ago, we have resumed the development of n2n, a peer-to-peer VPN we developed some year ago to ease the access to remote ntop installations behind firewalls, that then evolved into a full fledge application. After having … Continue reading
Introducing @ntop_community Telegram Group
While tools like github and mailing lists can serve developers and experts, sometimes people look for a quick help. For this reason we have create a new Telegram group called @ntop_community that you can use (even from your desktop and mobile) … Continue reading
Introducing per-Second Measurements in nProbe Flow Exports
The need to perform on-time and per-second traffic measurements clashes with protocols such as NetFlow where all counters are cumulative with respect to the flow lifetime. So if you have a flow that lasted 2 minutes and moved X bytes, … Continue reading
ntopng and Time Series: From RRD to InfluxDB, new charts with Time Shift
One of the main concern of our users is the ability to scale ntopng with a large number of hosts/protocols and hence how to scale time series. As already discussed, RRD has many limitations with the increase of number of … Continue reading
How to accelerate Bro with PF_RING FT
We discussed many times about the large quantity of work IDSs have to carry on, and the high CPU load they require, this is the case of Suricata due to the thousands of rules that need to be evaluated for … Continue reading
Cloud, IoT, sFlow Traffic Monitoring Tutorials #SFUS18
Last week we have presented two tutorials at the Sharkfest US 2018 edition: sFlow: Theory and practice of a sampling technology [ slides ] Packet monitoring in the days of IoT and Cloud [ slides ] We believe these tutorials are … Continue reading
Network Traffic and Security Monitoring Using ntopng and InfluxDB
Yesterday our friends at InfluxData organised a meetup at their HQ in San Francisco, CA. For all those who have been unable to attend the event, these are the presentation slides so you can learn more about the transition from RRD to … Continue reading