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Network Visibility and Observability: ntopng vs SNMP+
Recently, we’ve encountered users with high monitoring requirements. Some users need to monitor 1,000 routers and want to know who are the top talkers or top protocols. Others have a network with 200 branches, each with a NetFlow-enabled router. They need to know from a central location who are the top bandwidth users and ports on selected branches. Essentially, these users don’t need fine-grained network traffic monitoring. They just need a rough idea of who the top network users are (IP and ports). Often, users who ask us these questions …
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PacketFest 2025 was an absolute blast!
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 cybersecurity.     It was a great pleasure to have on stage many packet experts including Gerald Combs (Wireshark creator), Kelley Misata (president of OISF), and Thomas Graf (IETF chair), this in addition to the …
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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 like never before. The new dashboard provides a clear inventory of network assets with their virtual representations. Infrastructure DashboardManage multi-region deployments with a bird’s-eye view of your infrastructure and performance across distributed environments. Autonomous Systems …
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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 packed with powerful new features and improvements designed to push performance and visibility to the next level. Full Flow Table Offload on Napatech Adapters Cento 2.2 now offers fully-fledged Flow Table offload support with the …
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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, now including periodic flow updates to ensure real-time flow visibility and minimal latency for exporting flow stats. We also explored DOCA Flow support in NVIDIA  BlueField and ConnectX adapters, to provide flow tracking also on …
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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 of view including: User Satisfaction: Even if network metrics appear good, poor QoE leads to frustration (e.g., buffering videos or choppy VoIP calls). Business Impact: Bad QoE can result in lost customers, reduced productivity, or …
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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 free for PacketFest attendees, and you need to register on the conference website where you can also see the complete training program. For those interested on a remote training, this is to announce that we …
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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, as well as monitor the network interconnecting them. Now, we are excited to introduce a further extension to the Infrastructure Monitoring in ntopng, the new Infrastructure Dashboard. This enhancement enables users to efficiently oversee multiple …
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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 (Switzerland), it is essential to provide tools to our bachelor students in computer science that enable them to observe and analyze traffic in real time. ntopng, an open-source network monitoring solution, is an appropriate choice for …
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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 have been moved and changed location. Below you can find the list of the moved pages and how to access them now: Server Ports (Previously, Server Ports Analysis): Previously in the Host entry, moved to …
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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 and optimize storage usage. Multithreaded Packet Capture to take advantage of  RSS (Receive Side Scaling) capabilities on NVIDIA/Mellanox ConnectX adapters. In fact on those adapters it is not possible to scale the performance by spawning …
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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 two? Let’s start by looking at SNMP. As explained in the previous post, if SNMP is enabled on the routers/switches, using ntopng it is possible to figure out if an interface is congested. On the …

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