Continuous packet recorders are devices that capture raw traffic to disk, providing a window into network history, that allows you to go back in time when a network event occurs, and analyse traffic up to the packet level to find … Continue reading
System-Introspected Network and Container Visibility: A Quick Start Guide
Recently, we have introduced the concept of network and container visibility through system introspection and also demonstrated its feasibility with an opensource library libebpfflow. In other words, by leveraging certain functionalities of the linux operating system, we are able to … Continue reading
Introducing nProbe Agent: Packetless, System-Introspected Network Visibility
A few months ago at FOSDEM we introduced the concept of network and container visibility through system introspection and we released an opensource library based on eBPF that can be used for this scope. Based on this technology, we created a lightweight … Continue reading
Talking about Network, Service, and Container Monitoring at InfluxDays
Later this week the ntop team will attend InfluxDays, June 13-14, London, UK. We’ll be talking about traffic monitoring in containerised environments, and give you an outlook of our roadmap. If you are attending this event (we’ll have a … Continue reading
ntopConf 2019 Retrospective
On May 8-9th we have organised our yearly event, in Padova, Italy. The first day was dedicated to training and the second day to the conference. Overall about 150 people attended the event, and we’re glad of it. Our gratitude … Continue reading
Monitoring Containerised Application Environments with eBPF
Earlier this week ntop and InfluxData held a joint webinar about monitoring containerised applications. We have discussed solution for monitoring both legacy (e.g. non-containerised) and containerised applications, what are the technologies we can use. As most of you know, we have developed … Continue reading
Cento 1.6 Stable Just Released
After more than one year since the latest stable release, we are glad to announce cento 1.6-stable. This new release brings stability, fixes and several new features. Among the new features, it is worth mentioning that: Flows can be exported … Continue reading
nDPI 2.8-stable is Out
This new release brings several fixes that make nDPI more stable. Such fixes involve especially DNS and HTTP traffic dissection. Here is the full list of changes: New Supported Protocols and Services Added Modbus over TCP dissector Improvements Wireshark Lua … Continue reading
Honouring System Default Policies on ntop Packages
Many distributions provide mechanisms to let the system administrator decide if the new installed packages should be enabled and/or started automatically. Previously, the ntop services were always enabled and started automatically after the first package installation, regardless of any system … Continue reading
Introducing n2disk 3.2: towards 100 Gbit to disk
This is to announce a new n2disk release 3.2. This release, besides addressing a few issues, includes new juicy features: Multithreaded dump and support for multiple volumes. This is useful in a few cases: If you want to record traffic … Continue reading