This is to announce the availability of ntopng 5.6 stable release that brings several additions and improvements: We have started to introduce responsiveness in ntopng GUI by means of VueJS. All timeseries and historical pages are now rewritten to take … Continue reading
Using Multitenancy in ntopng
Not all ntop users know that ntopng natively implements multitenancy support. Namely you can use ntopng to collect and analyse traffic from multiple users, and show to each user its own traffic, hiding all the rest. All you need to … Continue reading
Rethinking Flow Visualisation in ntopng
For years ntopng has listed flows in a tabular view. Our users are used to it, and over time we have added new features and filtering capabilities. What we have not yet done, is rethink how flows are reported. Reworking … Continue reading
Scaling Up: How To Collect, Analyse, and Store Flows at Scale (100 Gbit+)
Most ntop tools such as nProbe cento and n2disk have been designed to run at high speed (today we consider 100 Gbit a high-speed link). ntopng instead has to perform many activities including behavioral traffic analysis that makes it unable … Continue reading
Using Python (including Jupyter Notebook) with ntopng
Most programmers and network/security administrators are familiar with the Python language. As from time to time we receive requests from our users for creating custom reports, or extracting other type of data (e.g. alerts or timeseries) from ntopng, we have … Continue reading
HowTo Use Periodic Traffic Analysis in Cybersecurity
Since v5 ntopng has the ability to detect periodic activities, i.e. activities that are repeated periodically at a given pace (note that each activity can have a different frequency, and ntopng is able to detect them). Periodic activities are not … Continue reading
HowTo Monitor Zoom Performance and Video/Call Quality
Zoom is a popular platform for video communications and team collaboration. As many other cloud services, network administrators need to supervise Zoom network traffic usage. DPI toolkits such as nDPI are useful for identifying Zoom traffic for supervising the network … Continue reading
What’s New in ntopng: Network Assets
Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about the Asset Map. … Continue reading
Introducing Lua-based Host and Flow Behavioural Checks
With ntopng version 5 we have migrated performance sensitive sections of the ntopng engine from Lua to C++. This has enabled ntopng to scale up nicely while reducing resource needs such as CPU and memory. The drawback is that writing … Continue reading
What’s New in ntopng: Periodic Activities (a.k.a beaconing) !
Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about the Periodicity Map. … Continue reading