As you ntopng users know, out of the Elastic toolset ntopng supports both ElasticSearch and LogStash. You can use them using the -F flag: –dump-flows|-F] <mode> | Dump expired flows. Mode: | es Dump in ElasticSearch database | Format: | es;<mapping type>;<idx name>;<es URL>;<http auth> | Example: | es;ntopng;ntopng-%Y.%m.%d;http://localhost:9200/_bulk; | Notes: | The <idx name> […]
Welcome to ntopng 3.4: Improved Alerts/SNMP/Asset Discovery, InfluxDB/Prometheus Support
We’re happy to announce the release of ntopng 3.4 that introduces several enhancements and new features, some of which will be finalised in 3.6 due later this year. This version consolidates several months of work and paves the way to more radical changes planned for the next release. In particular beta features present in this […]
Introducing Multi-language Support in ntopng
Traditionally all ntop tools have manuals and user interface in English. As sometimes our users are not really familiar with it, we have decided to introduce user interface translation of the user interface so that we can make those users more comfortable when using ntopng. As the moment we have added support for Italian and […]
Network Monitoring 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding ntop Tools
The first important step to start with network monitoring is to analyze what we want to monitor and how to deploy the monitoring solution in the existing network. Here are some important questions to ask ourselves before starting the actual monitoring: Do we need to monitor the entire network or just a specific segment? Do […]
Announcing ntopng 3.2 – The First Move Towards Active Network Monitoring
Today we are glad to announce the new 3.2 stable release of ntopng. Among the most important new features available in this release, there is without any doubt an advanced network devices discovery functionality. Historically, ntopng has always been a fully passive monitoring tool. This release aims at complementing the information gathered from a purely […]
Network Device Discovery. Part 1: Active Discovery
Since its introduction in 1998, ntop(ng) has been a pure (well beside DNS address resolution if enabled) passive network monitoring tool. Recently we have complemented it with active device discovery in order to find out if there are silent devices in our network, and what services/OS our devices are featuring. In this article we will […]
ntopng Grafana Integration: The Beauty of Data Visualizazion
Disclaimer This article is outdated: please see this document for using ntopng with grafana Summary Grafana is one of the most widely known platforms for metrics monitoring (and alerting); ntopng version 3.1 natively integrates with Grafana thanks to a datasource plugin which is freely available; This article explains how to install and configure the ntopng datasource […]
Announcing ntopng and Grafana Integration
Disclaimer This article is outdated: please see this document for using ntopng with grafana This is to announce the release of the ntopng Grafana datasource that you can find on the grafana website. Using this plugin you can create a Grafana dashboard that fetches data from ntopng in a matter of clicks. To set up […]
When Live is not Enough: Connecting ntopng and nProbe via MySQL for Historical Flows Exploration
Using nProbe in combination with ntopng is a common practice. The benefits of this combination are manyfold and include: A complete decoupling of monitoring activities (taking place on the nProbe) from visualization tasks (taking place on ntopng); The capability of building distributed deployments where multiple (remote) nProbe instances send monitored data towards one or more […]
How to use ntopng for Realtime Traffic Analysis on Fritz!Box Routers
Fritz!Box routers are popular devices that many people use to connect to the Internet. Inside these routers there is a hidden (i.e. not accessible from the router web admin page, but that you access directly with a web browser by writing the whole URL) URL http://192.168.2.1/html/capture.html (BTW replace the 192.168.2.1 IP address with your Fritz!Box router IP […]