PacketFest 2025 has been a great success. About 110 people, coming from more than 10 (European and overseas) countries, met in Zürich and attended the conference organized by ntop with support from Switch, AnyWeb, and Leutert NetServices. It was a three-day event where the ntop and Wireshark communities met to discuss network traffic visibility and […]
Released ntopng 6.4: More Insightful Than Ever
We’re excited to announce a new ntopng stable release 6.4, a feature-packed update! With a strong focus on assets visibility and QoE monitoring. This version introduces groundbreaking new dashboards, advanced reporting, better alerting, and a lot of improvements to keep your network monitoring efficient and insightful. Breakthroughs Asset Inventory & Digital Twin DashboardVisualize your infrastructure […]
Released Cento 2.2: Enhanced Flow Offload, QoE Metrics, and GTP Correlation
We’re excited to announce a new release of Cento 2.2, our high-performance flow-based traffic processing engine. This release brings major enhancements in traffic analysis capabilities, particularly for mobile network monitoring, quality assessment, and flow offloading on Napatech adapters. Whether you’re deploying Cento in ISP-grade infrastructures or using it for deep traffic inspection, this release is […]
Released PF_RING 9.0.0: Fully Fledged Hardware Flow Tracking
This is to announce a new PF_RING release 9.0.0! This release brings significant improvements for a deeper flow tracking integrations, making PF_RING even more powerful for building high-performance flow processing networking applications able to leverage on state-of-the-art hardware offloads at high speed. In fact we’ve streamlined support for the latest Napatech SmartNIC’s Flow Manager FPGA, […]
Introducing Network Quality Measurement (QoE) in ntop Tools
Quality of Experience (QoE) measures how satisfied users are with a network service based on their subjective perception. Unlike Quality of Service (QoS), which focuses on technical metrics (e.g., latency, jitter, packet loss), QoE evaluates the actual end-user experience—such as video streaming smoothness, call clarity, or web browsing responsiveness. QoE is important from various points […]
Announcing ntop Professional Training at ntop Conference (PacketFest) and June 2025
PacketFest will talk place in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 8-9 and it will be the event where the ntop and wireshark communities meet. On May 7th we organize for the ntop community an in-presence training session where we will show the latest news about ntop tools and teach how to master them. The training is […]
Introducing the New Infrastructure Dashboard in ntopng
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]