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Icinga2 is an open source monitoring system which checks the availability of hosts and services, notifies users of outages and generates performance data for reporting. Thanks to its scalability and extensibility, it…

ntopng

February 9, 2019

Identifying Suspicious Flows: Network Issues or Misbehaving Hosts ?

Starting from the latest 3.9 version, ntopng features and handy dropdown menu that allows you to filter flows on the basis of their current TCP state. Being able to filter flows on…

n2disk

December 24, 2018

Drill Down Deeper: Using ntopng to Zoom In, Filter Out and Go Straight to the Packets

ntopng has grown significantly over the past years, providing an increasingly-interesting set of features to support network analysts and troubleshooters in their decisions. Among the most relevant features, it is worth mentioning…

ntopng

December 14, 2018

ntopng Disk Requirements for Timeseries and Flows

Being able to do a priori estimations of the space that ntopng is going to use in a production environment is fundamental for the provisioning of the storage. In this post we…

Components

December 10, 2018

Remote ntopng Authentication with RADIUS and LDAP

In large organizations, it is common to have a centralised authentication system usually named AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting). Managing users typically involves the definition and enforcement of the rights to do…

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

May 11, 2018

ntopng goes Elastic: Introducing ElasticSearch 6 Support

As you ntopng users know, out of the Elastic toolset ntopng supports both ElasticSearch and LogStash. You can use them using the -F flag: --dump-flows|-F] | Dump expired flows. Mode: |…

nProbe

January 22, 2018

Network Monitoring 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding ntop Tools

The first important step to start with network monitoring is to analyze what we want to monitor and how to deploy the monitoring solution in the existing network. Here are some important…

Announce

December 4, 2017

Announcing ntopng 3.2 – The First Move Towards Active Network Monitoring

Today we are glad to announce the new 3.2 stable release of ntopng. Among the most important new features available in this release, there is without any doubt an advanced network devices…

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…

ntopng

May 15, 2017

Monitoring Network Devices with ntopng and SNMP

Summary SNMP is widely used for network monitoring. Being able to remotely monitor network devices is fundamental to have a clear picture of present and past network health. ntopng systematically interacts with…

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…

Tag: ntopng

Merging Infrastructure and Traffic Monitoring: Integrating ntopng with Icinga

Identifying Suspicious Flows: Network Issues or Misbehaving Hosts ?

Drill Down Deeper: Using ntopng to Zoom In, Filter Out and Go Straight to the Packets

ntopng Disk Requirements for Timeseries and Flows

Remote ntopng Authentication with RADIUS and LDAP

Best Practices to Secure ntopng

ntopng goes Elastic: Introducing ElasticSearch 6 Support

Network Monitoring 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding ntop Tools

Announcing ntopng 3.2 – The First Move Towards Active Network Monitoring

ntopng Grafana Integration: The Beauty of Data Visualizazion

Monitoring Network Devices with ntopng and SNMP

Filling the Pipe: Exporting ntopng Flows to Logstash