Most users of our community use ntopng as flow (sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX) collector with ntop tools such as nProbe or nProbe Cento. From time to time we receive inquiries about using it as generic flow collector for instance reading connection information from the firewall, log files/syslog, MQTT, or cloud formats. This blog post shows you howto do […]
Using ntopng for Teaching Network Monitoring and Administration
ntop believes in education, research, and no-profit and for this reason ntop tools have been them offered free of charge. Today we’re pleased to hear how they have helped young students to monitor and administer networks. Enjoy ! Introduction When teaching network monitoring and administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Fribourg […]
Short 2025 Roadmap: QoE, AI in Traffic Classification, Distributed Architecture, SuperNICs
As usual, we’re sharing some details about our 2025 roadmap. We have discusses several working items and distilled a few we can pursue in the coming months. QoE (Quality of Experience) In the past few years we have focused on Cybersecurity and now we want to extend our measurements into a new dimension: quality. ntop […]
Meet the ntop Team at FOSDEM, Brussels Feb 1-2
As we did in the past, this year we’re organizing the network devroom at FOSDEM that will take place in Brussels next week-end Sat and Sun February 1-2. Most of ntop team will be there and it will be a great to meet our community. This time we will be talking about nDPI and smart […]
Introducing ntopng Policy Menu
In the past months we have extended our behaviour analysis introducing new features such as the ACL or device policies. For this reason we have rearranged the menus and create a new Policy menu (you can read more here) that contains all the configurations used by ntopng to trigger alerts. Sue to this, some pages […]
You’re Invited to PacketFest ’25, Zürich 7-9 May: Where ntop and Wireshark Communities Meet
PacketFest ’25 is a two-day (May 8th and 9th) technical conference in Zurich, Switzerland, bringing together the ntop and Wireshark communities. The event features presentations and workshops on network traffic monitoring, cybersecurity, and open-source technologies, with a focus on practical applications and the latest advancements in ntop and Wireshark tools. Attendees can expect interactive sessions, […]
Introducing n2disk 3.8: NVIDIA Support, Smart Recording, Traffic Deduplication
We’re excited to announce a new stable release of n2disk v. 3.8. This release is bringing significant new capabilities to the network monitoring and recording landscape, and it is packed with features that enhance both functionalities and performance. Here’s a closer look at the highlights of this release: New Smart Recording support to intelligently manage […]
Introducing nScrub 1.6: Broader Support, More Offloads, Improved Algorithms
We are excited to announce this new release of nScrub, 1.6, packed with new features, expanded hardware support, and key enhancements to strengthen network defense capabilities. This release adds native support for NVIDIA/Mellanox ConnectX adapters, and extends support for Napatech adapters by enabling the TX offload support, which optimizes packet transmission performance and reduces CPU […]
Released nDPI 4.12: Obfuscated/Encrypted/Proxied Traffic and Fingerprints
This is to announce the release of nDPI 4.12, the first version after our 6 months release cycle announced earlier this year. The main changes of this release include support for encrypted/obfuscated/proxied in particular for OpenVPN and TLS, as well support for network fingerprints presented in November at the Sharkfest conference. For all details see […]
Exporting (Custom) Flows with Avro in nProbe Cento
This summer we introduced nProbe Cento 2.0. Before this release, Cento was supporting JSON serialization only when exporting flows to Kafka. JSON is straightforward and widely used, but it can be verbose and less efficient for high-throughput or resource-sensitive environments. To address these challenges, when exporting flows to ntopng, some time ago we introduced a […]