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nProbe is both a probe and a NetFlow/sFlow collector. Recently, we've also added added the ability to collect flows with proprietary information elements. This greatly improves nProbe flexibility as any custon, vendor-proprietary…

Guides

September 20, 2018

Best Practices for the Collection of Flows with ntopng and nProbe

ntopng can be used to visualize traffic data that has been generated or collected by nProbe. Using ntopng with nProbe is convenient in several scenarios, including: The visualization of NetFlow/sFlow data originated…

ntop

July 5, 2018

Cloud, IoT, sFlow Traffic Monitoring Tutorials #SFUS18

Last week we have presented two tutorials at the Sharkfest US 2018 edition: sFlow: Theory and practice of a sampling technology [ slides ] Packet monitoring in the days of IoT and…

ntopng

June 6, 2018

Best Practices to Secure ntopng

After a fresh install, ntopng will run using a default, basic configuration. Such configuration is meant to provide an up-and-running ntopng but does not try to secure it. Therefore, the default configuration…

ntopng

October 8, 2017

ntopng Grafana Integration: The Beauty of Data Visualizazion

Disclaimer This article is outdated: please see this document for using ntopng with grafana Summary Grafana is one of the most widely known platforms for metrics monitoring (and alerting); ntopng version 3.1…

Guides

August 14, 2017

When Live is not Enough: Connecting ntopng and nProbe via MySQL for Historical Flows Exploration

Using nProbe in combination with ntopng is a common practice. The benefits of this combination are manyfold and include: A complete decoupling of monitoring activities (taking place on the nProbe) from visualization…

Guides

April 3, 2017

Filling the Pipe: Exporting ntopng Flows to Logstash

Logstash comes in very handy when it is necessary to manipulate or augment data before the actual consolidation. Typical examples of augmentation include IP address to customer ID mappings and geolocation, just…

cento

December 1, 2016

Stream That Flow: How to Publish nProbe/Cento Flows in a Kafka Cluster

Apache Kafka can be used across an organization to collect data from multiple sources and make them available in standard format to multiple consumers, including Hadoop, Apache HBase, and Apache Solr. nProbe…

Features

March 1, 2016

Exploring Historical Data Using ntopng: Part 2

ntopng is able to deliver monitored traffic flows data to a MySQL server. We have already discussed how to configure ntopng to deliver this data in another blog post. In this article…

Guides

December 14, 2015

Ntopng Integration with Nagios

Discontinuation Notice This post becomes obsolete effective with ntopng 4.1+. Full discontinuation notice available here. This tutorial shows how to properly configure nagios and ntopng (Professional) in order to send asynchronous ntopng-generated…

Using nProbe and ntopng for Collecting and Visualizing Sonicwall Flows

Best Practices for the Collection of Flows with ntopng and nProbe

Cloud, IoT, sFlow Traffic Monitoring Tutorials #SFUS18

Best Practices to Secure ntopng

ntopng Grafana Integration: The Beauty of Data Visualizazion

When Live is not Enough: Connecting ntopng and nProbe via MySQL for Historical Flows Exploration

Filling the Pipe: Exporting ntopng Flows to Logstash

Stream That Flow: How to Publish nProbe/Cento Flows in a Kafka Cluster

Exploring Historical Data Using ntopng: Part 2

Ntopng Integration with Nagios