What is ntopng

ntopng is a web-based traffic monitoring application able to:

  • Passive monitor traffic by passively capturing network traffic

  • Collect network flows (NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX)

  • Actively monitor selected network devices

  • Monitor a network infrastructure via SNMP

The main difference between ntopng and a traffic collector, is that ntopng not only reports traffic statistics but it also analizes the traffic, draws conclusions on observed traffic type and reports cybersecurity metrics.

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Releases and Features

ntopng development lifecycle is typically 6 to 9 months. The history of changes and features implemented by every release, is available on its Changelog.

Please stay tuned and follow the ntop blog (http://blog.ntop.org) for all the latest news or visit the ntop GitHub page at http://github.com/ntop.

Basic Concepts & Use Cases