Introducing ntopng Hosts Activity Monitor

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Many users requested us a simple way to visualise hosts activity overtime. In essence have the ability to answer questions like:

  • What hosts were active during the week-end
  • When a host is using most of the network.
  • What hosts were active when a certain event happened.

This is what hosts activity monitor does.

In the dev branch, ntopng has been enhanced with a new menu entry under the hosts page, that shows in a heatmap the activity of local hosts. From the menubar it is possible to specify an arbitrary periodo or predefines ones such as last hour/day/month. The darker is the bar, the more traffic a given hosts has sent/received during such period of time. So easy.

Enjoy !