nProbe Archives

We are pleased to announce the release of nProbe 11.2, bringing major new capabilities for network visibility, routing intelligence, flow analysis, and OT monitoring. This release significantly expands nProbe beyond traditional flow…

nProbe

August 12, 2026

HowTo Collect Flows: the Case of Palo Alto and Fortinet

Network devices export flow data in many flavors. Some vendors stick closely to the NetFlow/IPFIX standard, so collecting their flows is essentially plug-and-play. Others extend the standard with proprietary Information Elements (IEs)…

nProbe

June 4, 2026

Observability: Enabling High-Resolution Timeseries in ntopng

Modern observability platforms are expected to answer questions that traditional monitoring systems were never designed to handle: What exactly happened during that 20-second congestion spike? Which application caused the transient burst? Why…

cento

May 18, 2026

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Analysis

Modern digital security relies on public-key encryption (like RSA and ECC) to protect global data. The future arrival of a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) will completely break these mathematical foundations. To…

nProbe

March 2, 2026

Network Telemetry Demystified: Microscope vs Telescope

As an ntopng developer, I often hear from users who are confused about the building blocks of network monitoring. Today, I'll explain three fundamental concepts that will help you understand what your…

nProbe

February 19, 2026

Capacity Planning for IT Teams: A Practical Guide Using ntop Tools

Transform network data into actionable infrastructure decisions with ntopng Introduction Every IT team faces the same challenge: how much network capacity is enough? Too little, and applications grind to a halt during…

Cybersecurity

January 27, 2026

Slow DoS Detection and Prevention

A slow DoS (Denial of Service) attack is a type of cyberattack designed to overwhelm a server or web application by exploiting protocol weaknesses—not through high-volume traffic, but by sending requests very…

nProbe

November 18, 2025

nProbe 11.0: Smarter Flow Analysis, Deeper Protocol Visibility, Enhanced GTP Traffic Correlation

We’re excited to announce the release of nProbe 11.0. This release incorporates several improvements and brings major improvements in flow analysis, tunnel handling, and TCP statistics, along with new features that make…

nProbe

November 11, 2025

HowTo Dump Collected Flows and nTap Packets with nProbe

When nProbe collects data (both sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX and nTap), it immediately discards collected data after processing. However sometimes it is useful to dump such data. A typical use-case include: nProbe collects packets sent…

cento

November 10, 2025

HowTo Measure the Status and Performance of Network Flows

NetFlow has been originally designed to monitor network traffic using simple bytes/packets metrics. For TCP, it is also possible to know what TCP flags (that indicate the connection state) have been used…

nProbe

July 22, 2025

Best Practices for nProbe and ntopng Deployment

We often receive inquiries about the best practices for deploying nProbe and ntopng. This post will try to shed some light on this subject. The first thing to know is how many…

Announce

April 30, 2025

Introducing nProbe 10.8: QoE, AWS/GCP VPC Support, Better GTP Traffic Correlation

We’re excited to announce the new nProbe 10.8 release! This release introduces features that improve visibility, performance, and protocol intelligence, while also addressing many community-requested improvements and fixes. Quality of Experience (QoE)…

nProbe 11.2: BGP/BMP Support, OT Protocols, Faster Flow Collection

HowTo Collect Flows: the Case of Palo Alto and Fortinet

Observability: Enabling High-Resolution Timeseries in ntopng

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Analysis

Network Telemetry Demystified: Microscope vs Telescope

Capacity Planning for IT Teams: A Practical Guide Using ntop Tools

Slow DoS Detection and Prevention

nProbe 11.0: Smarter Flow Analysis, Deeper Protocol Visibility, Enhanced GTP Traffic Correlation

HowTo Dump Collected Flows and nTap Packets with nProbe

HowTo Measure the Status and Performance of Network Flows

Best Practices for nProbe and ntopng Deployment

Introducing nProbe 10.8: QoE, AWS/GCP VPC Support, Better GTP Traffic Correlation