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
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
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
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 […]
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 above 30-40 Gbit/s to HDDs or SSDs, you should pay attention to the RAID controller […]
Introducing PF_RING 7.4: PF_RING FT, Containers and Virtual Functions Support
This is to announce a new PF_RING major release 7.4. This release includes many improvements to the PF_RING FT library, which is now more mature thanks to new API functionalities and features that provide more flexibility. This release also addresses many issues, and moves a step forward in the same direction of release 7.2, which included […]
Introducing nDPI 2.6: several new dissectors, DPDK and Hyperscan support
This is to announce the release of nDPI 2.6. Several dissectors have been improved and a few new ones have been added, as well we have improved the detection logic (this in case we have to guess the protocol due to incomplete data). This is also the first release of nDPI that natively supports Intel […]
20 Years of ntop: The Conference
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
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
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 […]