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Announcing nDPI Dual License Change
A License Change for nDPI: Protecting the Project We Started in 2012 When we began nDPI back in 2012, the idea was simple: build an open source, high-performance Deep Packet Inspection engine that anyone could use as a foundation layer for network applications. No gatekeeping or strings attached, but just a solid piece of infrastructure that the community could build on, improve, and share back. In order to protect this idea, we have registered the nDPI trademark both in the US and EU to prevent people from using the word …
nProbe

HowTo Collect Flows: the Case of Palo Alto and Fortinet
Network devices export flow data in many flavors. Some vendors stick closely to the NetFlow/IPFIX standard, so collecting their flows is essentially plug-and-play. Others extend the standard with proprietary Information Elements (IEs) to expose vendor-specific details (e.g. application names, user identities, security verdicts, etc) which requires a bit of extra configuration on the collector side. In this post we revisit and update an older article on collecting proprietary flows with nProbe, using two widely deployed firewall vendors as concrete examples: Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks. Two Different Approaches, One Collector FortiGate exports flow data …
Technologies and Trends

Saying Goodbye to Hierarchical Clusters in ntopng
The hierarchical cluster architecture was originally introduced to allow multiple ntopng instances to be organized in a parent/child topology. Child instances collected and analyzed local traffic, while parent instances aggregated information from multiple children to provide a centralized view of the network. At the time, this approach addressed a common requirement: monitoring geographically distributed sites while maintaining a central point of visibility. However, networking environments and the ntop ecosystem have both evolved considerably since then. Building a distributed deployment with nProbe and ntopng Today, the same use cases can be …
ntopng

Supercharging ntopng: Engineering a Fast, Modern Network GUI
If you’ve opened ntopng recently, you may have noticed something feels a little different — a little faster. That’s not your imagination. We’ve rebuilt the main menu, footer and top header, interfaces selector and the preferences pages using Vue.js, the first step in a broader effort to modernize ntopng’s entire interface. What Changed The menu and preferences sections have historically been built on server-rendered HTML — reliable, but not built for speed. Every click meant a round trip to the server and a full page reload, even for something as …
ntopng

Who Is Eating My Bandwidth ?
Every network administrator has, at some point, asked the same question: who is eating my bandwidth? On a typical corporate LAN connected via flat-rate fiber, the answer is mostly a curiosity — useful for capacity planning, less so for the monthly bill. But the moment your network relies on a metered link — a 4G/5G mobile uplink, a VSAT satellite backhaul, an MPLS circuit billed by volume, or a roaming SIM in an IoT fleet — the same question becomes a cost-control problem, and getting the wrong answer can be …
AI

Discussing of LLM and Intelligent Monitoring at GRNOG 20
Earlier this week ntop attended the GRNOG 20, the annual meeting of Greek Network Operators. This has been a great place to discuss about network visibility in large networks, understand what are the problems network operators face with, and see what ntop can do in terms of visibility. ntop has been traditionally a company based on opens open source, and this has been the location where we have demonstrated how ntopng has been enhanced with BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), ASN and infrastructure visibility. One of the main topics of the …
Cybersecurity

Introducing ntop SBOM (Software BOM)
A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a formal, machine-readable inventory that lists every component, library, and dependency included within a software application. Think of it as a digital “ingredient label” that tells you exactly what went into building the software, which versions are running, and where each piece originated. Typically, it documents: SBOMs are increasingly becoming a legal requirement. For instance, governments and strict regulatory frameworks (e.g. the U.S. Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and the EU Cyber Resilience Act) mandate that software vendors provide SBOMs to …
AI

Interop Tokyo 2026: Showcasing the Future of Network Visibility and AI
We just returned from an incredible week in Japan! Interop Tokyo 2026 is the region’s premier computing and networking event. This year’s experience exceeded all our expectations. Connecting with our vibrant community always fuels our passion. It helps us shape the future of network traffic analysis. Here is a look at what went down and what is coming next. A Sold-Out Seminar with Jupiter Technology We owe a massive thank you to our trusted partner, Jupiter Technology. Thanks to their support, we hosted a specialized seminar during the event. The …
AI

Previewing nAnalyst, the layer that finally explains your network
Today we have previewed out first AI-based tool named nAnalyst during out webinar taht we have run with support of the Alibaba Qwen team. This tool is designed to (finally) explain what happens in your network, and we’ll introduce it in September with bet starting on June 22nd. For those who missed the webinar can see the recording of the event. Below you can also find the presentation slides we have used today: Shall you be interested in providing us a feedback and willing to test nAnalyst beta, please fill …
nProbe

Observability: Enabling High-Resolution Timeseries in ntopng
Modern observability platforms are expected to answer questions that traditional monitoring systems were never designed to handle: Conventional network timeseries are excellent for long-term capacity planning and trend analysis, but they often smooth away the short-lived events that matter most during troubleshooting and incident analysis. With the introduction of High-Resolution Timeseries, ntopng closes this visibility gap by enabling historical traffic analysis at 15 second, or even lower, granularity, directly embedded into flow records.  Why High-Resolution Timeseries Matter Traditional flow records aggregate counters over the entire lifetime of a connection. While this approach …
News

ntop Summer Tour: Interop Japan, Italy, Greece, Norway, Croatia…
This summer we are touring to present all the latest development and enhancements to our tool suite. In particular we will be focusing on: For those who cannot meet us in person can follow us in webinars, but we definitively prefer to see you in person. Below you can see some of our 2026 summer tour dates and places: We would like to meet our community in person so we invite you to show up. We are planning to attend other events after the summer, so stay tuned for updates. …
Technologies and Trends

June 9th: Join us for the ntop AI Webinar
Artificial intelligence is now a mature technology that is changing everyday life. Observability and cybersecurity are not an exception. This webinar explains the ntop vision on using AI, what we have done, and what is the direction we have in mind. Main topics include: We’ll open with a short session on running LLMs locally — why it matters for ops teams, and how local open models like Qwen make this possible without sending your network data to third-party clouds. This is network intelligence that stays on your infrastructure and explains …

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