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February 1, 2021

Bringing Network Visibility, Cybersecurity and Encrypted Traffic Analysis to OPNsense, pfSense and FreeBSD

This is to announce the immediate availability of both ntopng and nProbe for OPNsense, pfSense and FreeBSD, directly supported by ntop, with nightly builds and all the features present on all other…

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January 24, 2021

Introducing nProbe 9.4: New Platforms Support and Product Editions

This is to announce nProbe 9.4 stable that is an incremental update of 9.2 released last fall. The goal of this maintenance release is to pave the way to pervasive embedded systems…

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November 2, 2020

Introducing nProbe 9.2: Collection Pass-Through and Reforge, OpenWRT support, Flexible JSON-export

This is to announce the release of nProbe 9.2. The main new features of this release are focused on flow collection speed and flexibility in particular for modern JSON-based flow consumers. This…

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March 13, 2020

Introducing nProbe 9.0: Traffic Behaviour Analysis and High Speed Flow Collection (Even Behind a Firewall)

This is to introduce nProbe 9.0 stable release whose the two main features are traffic behaviour analysis and high speed flow collection. Traffic Behaviour Analysis When in 2002 nProbe™ development started, the…

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August 23, 2019

Packets vs eBPF/System Events: Positioning nProbe vs nProbe Agent

nProbe (and ntopng) is a traditional packet-based application, whose lifecycle is Capture a packet and dissect/decode it Update the representation in memory of the network traffic (e.g. the flow table) Export the…

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August 1, 2019

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…

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July 12, 2019

Measuring nProbe ElasticSearch Flow Export Performance

nProbe (via its export plugin) supports ElasticSearch flows export. Setting up nProbe for the ElasticSearch export is a breeze, it just boils down to specifying option --elastic. For example, to export NetFlow…

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May 18, 2019

Packets vs Flows: Which Option is the Best?

One of the most difficult steps on a monitoring deployment scenario is to choose where is the best point where traffic has to be monitored, and what is the best strategy to…

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March 1, 2019

Cento 1.6 Stable Just Released

After more than one year since the latest stable release, we are glad to announce cento 1.6-stable. This new release brings stability, fixes and several new features. Among the new features, it…

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February 28, 2019

How to export BGP routing information (AS Path) in network flows

Tools like traceroute have been used for a long time to track the forward path of packets, i.e. the journey of our packets to a remote destination. Unfortunately with traceroute nothing can…

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December 19, 2018

Measuring ntopng+nProbe Flow Processing Performance

NOTE: this post is outdated. Latest versions of ntopng and nProbe improve performance significantly. New figures are given in this post. In this post we try to analyze the performance of nProbe…

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November 9, 2018

sFlow Collection and Analysis with nProbe and ntopng

sFlow, short for sampled Flow, is a sampling technology designed to export network devices information, namely: Interface counters (à la SNMP MIB-II); Traffic packets (à la ERSPAN). sFlow agents run on switches,…