June 3, 2015
Exploring your traffic using ntopng with ElasticSearch+Kibana
ntopng allows you to export monitoring data do external sources. For low-traffic sites, SQLite and the ntopng historical interface can be a good option. As your traffic increases you are forced to put your data on a database if you care about performance and long-term data persistency. In future ntopng versions we will add support for additional databases, but for the time being we decided to start with the ELK (ElasticSearch + LogStash + Kibana) paradigm. In this case ElasticSearch (ES) is the database backend, and Kibana the GUI used to …