Merging Infrastructure and Traffic Monitoring: Integrating ntopng with Icinga
Icinga2 is an open source monitoring system which checks the availability of hosts and services, notifies users of outages and generates performance data for reporting. Thanks to its scalability and extensibility, it has become very popular (as Nagios successor) and suitable to monitor complex environments, even across multiple locations. Although popular, it falls short when it comes to monitor how the network is being used by certain host. There are several plugins for network monitoring available both in the Icinga Template Library and in the Icinga Exchange, however, they only …