For this reason, some time ago we introduced the Infrastructure Monitoring in ntopng, as described in a previous blog post, which is the ability to use ntopng to monitor other ntopng instances, by means of its Active Monitoring capabilities. This infrastructure monitoring feature allows users to gain real-time insights into the status of their ntopng instances, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Introducing Centralized License Manager for Dynamic Environments
We continually strive to make the software configuration and management more flexible and easier for the users. To this end, we are excited to announce the launch of a new way of licensing the software feature: the centralised License Manager (LM). This tool simplifies software license management by dynamically allocating licenses to various application instances […]
Using ClickHouse Cloud with ntopng
We are happy to announce that from the latest ntopng dev (6.1) version, ntopng supports exporting data (flows & alerts) to ClickHouse Cloud. Below you can find a step-by-step guide. Quick Start First of all let’s start by creating our account and service on the ClickHouse Cloud (you can find the official guide here); remember […]
ntopConf 2023 (25 years of ntop) Registration is Now Open
This is to announce that the registration for the ntop Conference 2023, 25 years since the first release of ntop, is now open. Similar to past conferences, this event is divided into two days: the first day will be allocated for training on ntop products, the second day for the main conference and workshop. You […]
Introducing Smart Recording in n2disk: Combining Cybersecurity with Packet-to-Disk
In short Continuous network traffic recorders are applications (or appliances) that write network traffic on disk. In case of issues (e.g. security breach or network outage) they enable network and security analysts to go back in time and see how a problem originated. The main limitation of this practice is that a lot of data […]
Introducing nTap: a Virtual Tap for Monitoring and Cybersecurity (including Wireshark, Suricata, Zeek, OpenvSwitch)
This is to announce a new product named nTap that implements a software tap, to be used in physical and virtual/containerised environments. Using nTap with ntop applications nTap with Third Party Applications nTap allows you to capture and deliver packets using a secure and encrypted communication channel from remote hosts to a collector host […]