Containers and Networks Visibility with ntopng and InfluxDB
For a while we have investigated how to combine system and network monitoring in a simple and effective way. In 2014 we have done a few experiments with Sysdig, and recently thanks to eBPF we have revamped our work to exploit this technology as well to be able to monitoring containerised environments. Months ago we have shown how to detect, count and measure the network activity which is taking place at a certain host just by leveraging certain functionalities of the linux operating system, without even looking at the traffic …