Tag: analytics

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How we Improved Alarm Delivery in ntopng

Sometimes, a critical issue shows up in your network and you’d like to be notified by ntopng on Telegram or by E-Mail. ntopng allows you to filter alerts for each recipient based on a few criteria including alert family, category, severity, or affected hosts. However in some case you want to be notified about a very specific alert, out of all alerts produced with the same family, category, severity. For example, it’s important to be notified when an Interface has no traffic, or when a new device (MAC) connects or …
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Using Traffic Rules To Supervise Network Traffic

The Problem Let’s assume that you have a Network where local hosts generate a constant amount of traffic. How do you find if they are misbehaving? It happens that some local host starts behaving strangely, by having an abnormal amount of traffic (sent or received) with respect to their recent past: how can you spot these situations and report them with an alert. This is why we have created the Local Traffic Rules page: users can now define custom Volume/Throughput threshold for some (or all) local hosts. You can also …
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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Disclaimer This article is outdated: please see this document for using ntopng with grafana Summary Grafana is one of the most widely known platforms for metrics monitoring (and alerting); ntopng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 plugin, and how to build a dashboard for the visualization of ntopng-generated metrics. A video tutorial is available as well: Introduction Grafana is an open platform for analytics and visualization. An extremely-well engineered architecture makes …