Blog entries by technology: ntop

28. 08. 2024 Tobias Goller Unified Monitoring

ntopng Updates

On 14.08.2024 ntopng released its latest version 6.2. I’d like to use this post to emphasize some of the key innovations it brings. There were many changes and bug fixes in this release. Some major improvements and enhancements are as follows: Furthermore, ntopng is now cloud-aware. Over the ntop cloud you’ll be able to control…

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08. 07. 2024 Tobias Goller Unified Monitoring

Collecting Netflows – ntopng vs. ElastiFlow

In order to be able to carry out detailed network monitoring, an IT administrator naturally wants to know what is happening in his or her network. To obtain this information, the network flows must of course be analyzed. Many network devices offer the option of creating netflows, which are sent to a recipient who can…

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18. 10. 2023 Tobias Goller Unified Monitoring

ntopng – Display Multiple Metrics in One Graph

After my last ntopng trainings, which I taught as an instructor, I noticed that many ntopng users were not familiar with the display of multiple time series charts overlapping in one graphic. Since I believe that this is one of the most important display options, I’ll use this blog post to show you how to…

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10. 07. 2023 Tobias Goller Unified Monitoring

ntop News in the Next Release

At the end of June, Luca Deri gave a webinar presenting the new features of the next ntopng release. I’d like to take this opportunity now to present these innovations to all of you. The main enhancements of the new release have been made in the following areas: Extension of the ntopng functionalities for the…

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27. 04. 2023 Tobias Goller Anomaly Detection, Unified Monitoring

Alerting on Network Traffic Anomalies with ntopng

Today I’d like to tell you about the possibility of alerting when anomalies in network traffic are encountered. I use ntopng to generate, evaluate and forward these alerts. If you don’t know about ntopng, let me briefly describe for you what it does. According to its creator, ntopng is a High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and…

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15. 02. 2023 Giovanni Davide Saccá Unified Monitoring

Ntopng and Behavior Analysis

Ever since version 5.4 of nBoxes with the Enterprise L license it’s been possible to use a new feature called Behavior Analysis. Let’s see what it is and how to take advantage of it. This ntopng feature enables monitoring of periodic flows of network traffic, i.e., flows that frequently repeat, by highlighting the services it…

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15. 06. 2022 Giovanni Davide Saccá Unified Monitoring

Into the Flows: Collecting Data with nProbe and nTop

The role of these two components is pretty clear: nProbe has the role of collecting traffic data, while nTop makes that data visible and easily analyzable. There is something, however, that needs to be explicitly stated, which is to decide whether it’s ntopng that should contact nProbe or vice versa, and as we’re in a…

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14. 06. 2022 Giovanni Davide Saccá NetEye, Unified Monitoring

nTop and nDPI: How to Increase Network Traffic Analysis

nTop now uses the nDPI (network deep packet inspection) library to classify packets within network traffic for those protocols that either do not use a standard port (defined as well known ports like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers and https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml) or that are dynamically assigned. In any case the need to classify not only the packet header but also…

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13. 06. 2022 Giovanni Davide Saccá ITOA, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Grafana for nTop: Realizing a Dashboard

A customer with a NetEye installation to which I had added the nTop module asked me if I could integrate nTop’s Grafana Dashboards, so they could view them by consulting NetEye’s ITOA Menu. The installation and configuration of nTop for this client, a task I had already conducted some time ago, was a matter of…

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12. 04. 2022 Tobias Goller Unified Monitoring

News from nBox and ntopng

In the last few weeks I installed and configured some nBoxes with the new ntopng version 5.2. Now I’d like to briefly tell you all about it. For all of you who don’t know what an nBox is, I’ll relay the official definition here: nBox Recorder is a network traffic disk recorder application. With nBox…

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05. 10. 2021 Giovanni Davide Saccá NetEye, Unified Monitoring

nProbe and nTop All-in-One (Single Node): Netflows Analysis

One of my clients with a number of routers installed at their own remote location asked me if I could analyze the network flows at multiple locations. Their network architecture is a full mesh, and thus has private subnetworks, data center environments, and even in some cases cloud providers. Complex architectures like this require increasing…

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26. 07. 2021 Attilio Broglio NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Building and Stress Testing Multitenancy NetEye-NTOP

Introduction The nTop application is one of NetEye’s integrated solutions for network traffic monitoring. In order to test its scalability, we decided to build a test bench where we could simulate a customer who needs to monitor a large number of devices (i.e., 1-2K routers) and wants to group this information at the nTop level…

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27. 10. 2020 Arianna Cunaccia Webinar

Cyber Security with ntopng and nScrub

Identify and Mitigate Attacks  Protecting against cyber-attacks is becoming a top-priority for corporates around the world. An effective strategy for the protection against such events should focus at least on two dimensions, namely threat intelligence and perimeter defense. Using ntopng and nscrub we demonstrate how to effectively identify and mitigate threats in corporate networks with practical recommendations, guidelines and future directions to effectively…

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13. 05. 2019 NetEye Blog Admin Events

Impressions from the ntopConf

Overall about 150 people attended ntopConf, the yearly event for monitoring experts that turns their technical expertise into real-world practice in System Management and Traffic Monitoring. The first day was dedicated to training topics, and the second day to the conference itself. Our gratitude goes to the speakers, among them Georg who spoke about NetEye…

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26. 11. 2018 Arianna Cunaccia NetEye, Unified Monitoring

ntop Training

Who is using your network and how? What kind of traffic does your company generate? Where does slow network performance come from? ntop has the answers. ntop is a network traffic probe that monitors network usage. This solution provides an intuitive, encrypted web user interface for the exploration of both real-time and historical traffic information. In our…

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