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 […]
HowTo Monitor Router Interfaces Congestion Using SNMP
Sometimes it happens that your router is congested, and you ask yourself “How is it possible?” or “Who is responsible for congesting the network?” or “Which router/port is congested?”. You could simply answer the last question by using the SNMP/Flow Exporters Usage: HowTo Monitor SNMP Interfaces Utilisation and Congestion Rate; but what about the other […]
How nDPI Introduced Behaviour Analysis in Suricata
Last week we have attended Suricon 2024, the annual conference about Suricata and presented our work on how nDPI has been integrated with Suricata. At ntop we like to contribute to other open source projects we use and like, such as Suricata and Wireshark. One of the main limitations of Suricata is its inability to […]
A Deep Dive Into Traffic Fingerprints
Last week during SharkFest Europe 2024 we have presented what are network fingerprints and how they work. During the talk we (Luca and Ivan) have described how we have extended nDPI with support of network fingerprints, and how this work has been also integrated in Wireshark. We believe that fingerprints are an interesting technology that […]
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 […]
Introducing Multilanguage AI/LLM Support (beta)
In order to assist our community with 24/7 support, we have built an AI/LLM-based bot that has been trained on the ntop documentation (all products including ntopng, nProbe, nDPI…) and blog posts on this website. Currently this service is available in beta version and it is accessible using Discord on our ntop server (read here […]
Using ntopng to Improve Corporate Security
Today we report how ntopng has been used by Alabus AG to improve the corporate security (German version down this page). Enjoy ! PS. ntop users are very welcome to contact us reporting how they use ntop tools. ntop is used as a basis for analyzing the entire network traffic and it generates a very […]
Call for Presentations for ntopConference 2025 is Now Open
Next year the ntop community will meet in Zürich, Switzerland for a two days event (training and conference) on May 7 and 8th. As already happened in the past, we want to meet our users and discuss with them what we have done and what are the future directions to take. This event will not […]
Announcing ntop Professional Training: October 2024
ntop tools range from packet capture, traffic analysis and processing, and sometimes it is not easy to keep up on product updates as well master all the tools. This has been the driving force for organising ntop professional training. This is to announce that in October we have scheduled the next ntop Professional Training session. […]
Sept 5th Webinar: What’s new in the latest version of ntopng, nProbe/Cento, nDPI?
In mid August we have refreshed most ntop tools, that include new features, enhancements and fixes. This webinar will walk through the major release changes and show what you should expect from this new release. Finally we will present developments plans so you can comment and provide feedback. Here you can find the presentation slides, […]