Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about the Asset Map. … Continue reading
What’s New in ntopng: Periodic Activities (a.k.a beaconing) !
Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about the Periodicity Map. … Continue reading
ntopng 5.0 Is Out: Modern Traffic Monitoring for AIOps and Cybersecurity
ntopng was initially designed as a tool for realtime network traffic monitoring. The idea was to create a DPI-based tool able to report traffic statistics. Overtime we have added the ability to implement active monitoring checks, SNMP, and various other … Continue reading
NetFlow Collection Performance Using ntopng and nProbe
Introduction ntopng, in combination with nProbe, can be used to collect NetFlow. Their use for NetFlow collection is described in detail here. In this post we measure the performance of nProbe and ntopng when used together to collect, analyze, and … Continue reading
How Attackers and Victims Detection works in ntopng
In recent ntopng versions, alerts have been significantly enriched with metadata useful to understand network and security issues. In this post, we focus on the “Attacker” and “Victim” metadata, used to enrich flow alerts and label hosts. Specifically, the client … Continue reading
ntopng 4.0: A Refreshed Look with Dark Themes!
The latest ntopng 4.0 has a renewed look. The main changes we have introduced are: An always-on-top status bar. Key information on the health and status of the network is essential for the analyst and it must be always visible … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Identifying Suspicious Flows: Network Issues or Misbehaving Hosts ?
Starting from the latest 3.9 version, ntopng features and handy dropdown menu that allows you to filter flows on the basis of their current TCP state. Being able to filter flows on the basis of their TCP state is particularly … Continue reading
Drill Down Deeper: Using ntopng to Zoom In, Filter Out and Go Straight to the Packets
ntopng has grown significantly over the past years, providing an increasingly-interesting set of features to support network analysts and troubleshooters in their decisions. Among the most relevant features, it is worth mentioning that timeseries inspection pages have been redesigned and … Continue reading
ntopng Disk Requirements for Timeseries and Flows
Being able to do a priori estimations of the space that ntopng is going to use in a production environment is fundamental for the provisioning of the storage. In this post we try to estimate the space used by ntopng … Continue reading