Monitoring Containerised Application Environments with eBPF

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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 libebpfflow that is an open source library for generating IPFIX-like flows not using packets but […]

Cento 1.6 Stable Just Released

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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 in a standardized JSON to text files. By default, a user cento runs and owns […]

nDPI 2.8-stable is Out

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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 plugin compatibility with Wireshark 3 Improved MDNS dissection Improved HTTP response code handling Full dissection […]

Honouring System Default Policies on ntop Packages

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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 preferences. Now the ntop packages rely on system utilities to properly start, stop and restart […]

20 Years of ntop: The Conference

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Last Friday Oct 26th, at the University of Pisa we have celebrated 20 years of ntop open source code development and hacking culture. It has been a success with over 110 registered people, and 24 people in the morning training session. We decided to celebrate this event where ntop was created, and where most of […]

Best Practices for the Collection of Flows with ntopng and nProbe

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ntopng can be used to visualize traffic data that has been generated or collected by nProbe. Using ntopng with nProbe is convenient in several scenarios, including: The visualization of NetFlow/sFlow data originated by routers, switches, and network devices in general. In this scenario, nProbe collects and parse NetFlow/sFlow traffic from the devices, and send the […]

Workshop and Training: 20 Years of ntop

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This is a message for the Italian speaking community willing to attend our 20 years of ntop workshop that will take place in Pisa, Italy, where ntop was born. If there is somebody willing to help us organise a ntop event somewhere else, please contact us as next year we might be able to arrange […]