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ntopng, InfluxDB and Grafana: A Step-By-Step Guide to Create Dashboards

Posted January 20, 2021 · Add Comment

Creating Grafana dashboards out of ntopng data basically boils down to: Configuring ntopng to export timeseries data to InfluxDB Configuring the Grafana InfluxDB datasource to extract timeseries data from InfluxDB Adding Grafana Dashboards panels with ntopng data This post aims … Continue reading →

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A Step-By-Step Guide for Protecting Your Network with nScrub

Posted December 28, 2020 · Add Comment

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks represent a family cyber-attacks that are more and more common nowadays. They aim to make the service unavailable by overwhelming the victim with high traffic volumes (this is the case of volumetric or amplification attacks … Continue reading →

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Dec 10th, ntop miniconf 2020 part III: nProbe and n2disk (on embedded systems)

Posted December 8, 2020 · Add Comment

This is a reminder for the third and last part of our mini-conference 2020 scheduled for this Thursday, December 10th 4 PM CET/10 AM EST. This time we’ll focus on the latest nProbe and n2disk features and provide a short … Continue reading →

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Exploiting Arista MetaWatch with n2disk and ntopng: HighRes Timestamping and Analytics

Posted December 2, 2020 · Add Comment

Precise packet timestamping is a key feature for network traffic analysis and troubleshooting. Traditionally many people use FPGA-based NICs with precise timestamping (e.g. Napatech, Silicom) even though a good precision can be obtained with PTP-based NICs such as many Intel … Continue reading →

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Using ntopng as network sensor for SecurityOnion (and integrated with Suricata)

Posted November 23, 2020 · Add Comment

SecurityOnion (SO) is a popular Linux distribution for threat hunting and security. It included ElasticSearch as backend for storing alerts as well as Kibana-based web interface. SO includes out of the box a few sensors such as Suricata that is … Continue reading →

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Embedding ntop: Nokia Beacon and Ubiquity UniFi Dream Machine

Posted November 20, 2020 · Add Comment

The latest generation of network devices are pretty powerful and open. This means that such devices ship with a Linux-based distribution such as OpenWRT or UniFI OS. In these devices it is possible to install third party software as the … Continue reading →

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Using ntop tools on VyOS

Posted November 18, 2020 · Add Comment

VyOS  is a popular open-source router and firewall platform based on Linux, and some of our users asked us to support it natively. This post explains you how to achieve that in a few simple steps. Prerequisites As VyOS is … Continue reading →

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Introducing n2disk 3.6: full L7 support, fast flow export, replay rate control

Posted October 20, 2020 · Add Comment

This is to announce a new n2disk release 3.6. This release adds full support for indexing and retrieving traffic based on the Layer-7 application protocol. This can now be enabled even when flow export is disabled, and it is possible … Continue reading →

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Introducing PF_RING 7.8: ZC support for new Intel adapters and much more

Posted October 19, 2020 · Add Comment

This is to announce a new PF_RING major release 7.8. The main changes in this release include: The new ice ZC driver supporting E800 Series 100 Gigabit Intel adapters. Hardware timestamp support  for packet trailers and keyframes generated by Arista … Continue reading →

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Using ElasticSearch to Store and Correlate Ntopng Alarms

Posted October 14, 2020 · Add Comment

With the introduction of ntopng endpoints and recipients, it is now possible to handle alerts in a flexible fashion by means of recipients. ntopng embeds a SQLite database for turn-key alert storage and reporting. However in large organizations with many … Continue reading →

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