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nProbe 11.2: BGP/BMP Support, OT Protocols, Faster Flow Collection

We are pleased to announce the release of nProbe 11.2, bringing major new capabilities for network visibility, routing intelligence, flow analysis, and OT monitoring. This release significantly...

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HowTo Collect Flows: the Case of Palo Alto and Fortinet

Network devices export flow data in many flavors. Some vendors stick closely to the NetFlow/IPFIX standard, so collecting their flows is essentially plug-and-play. Others extend the standard with...

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Observability: Enabling High-Resolution Timeseries in ntopng

Modern observability platforms are expected to answer questions that traditional monitoring systems were never designed to handle: What exactly happened during that 20-second congestion spike? Which...

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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Analysis

Modern digital security relies on public-key encryption (like RSA and ECC) to protect global data. The future arrival of a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) will completely break...

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Network Telemetry Demystified: Microscope vs Telescope

As an ntopng developer, I often hear from users who are confused about the building blocks of network monitoring. Today, I’ll explain three fundamental concepts that will help you understand what your...

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Capacity Planning for IT Teams: A Practical Guide Using ntop Tools

Transform network data into actionable infrastructure decisions with ntopng Introduction Every IT team faces the same challenge: how much network capacity is enough? Too little, and applications grind...

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Slow DoS Detection and Prevention

A slow DoS (Denial of Service) attack is a type of cyberattack designed to overwhelm a server or web application by exploiting protocol weaknesses—not through high-volume traffic, but by sending...

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nProbe 11.0: Smarter Flow Analysis, Deeper Protocol Visibility, Enhanced GTP...

We’re excited to announce the release of nProbe 11.0. This release incorporates several improvements and brings major improvements in flow analysis, tunnel handling, and TCP statistics, along with new...

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HowTo Dump Collected Flows and nTap Packets with nProbe

When nProbe collects data (both sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX and nTap), it immediately discards collected data after processing. However sometimes it is useful to dump such data. A typical use-case include:...

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HowTo Measure the Status and Performance of Network Flows

NetFlow has been originally designed to monitor network traffic using simple bytes/packets metrics. For TCP, it is also possible to know what TCP flags (that indicate the connection state) have been...

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Best Practices for nProbe and ntopng Deployment

We often receive inquiries about the best practices for deploying nProbe and ntopng. This post will try to shed some light on this subject. The first thing to know is how many flows/second in total...

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HowTo Use Cloud Licenses

As discussed in our spring webinar, it is now possible to use (in beta) cloud licenses with ntopng and nProbe. Contrary to standard licenses that are bound to a physical system (based on the systemId),...

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HowTo Analyse NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow pcap Traces

Dumping sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX flows in pcap format can be very useful for troubleshooting or for creating a compact traffic dump. For instance you can dump flow traffic with n2disk (wireshark, or...

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How Sampling and Throughput Calculation Works: NetFlow/IPFIX vs sFlow vs Packets

ntop tools are able to collect various type of flows NetFlow/IPFIX (including dialects such as J-Flow, NetStream) and sFlow/NetFlowLite, this in addition to packet capture/processing. We have decided...

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nProbe 10.4 is now Available: Cloud Support and Agent Mode

This is to announce the release of nProbe 10.4. In this version we have made several improvements (including support for new platforms and distributions) as well merged the agent code into the main...

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Monitoring Microsoft Teams Performance and Video/Call Quality

Months ago we have talked how ntopng identifies ad monitors Zoom calls quality. Today we show how call monitoring has been now seamlessly extended to Microsoft Teams. Thanks to nDPI, ntopng is now able...

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Introducing nProbe 10.8: QoE, AWS/GCP VPC Support, Better GTP Traffic...

We’re excited to announce the new nProbe 10.8 release! This release introduces features that improve visibility, performance, and protocol intelligence, while also addressing many community-requested...

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Released Cento 2.2: Enhanced Flow Offload, QoE Metrics, and GTP Correlation

We’re excited to announce a new release of Cento 2.2, our high-performance flow-based traffic processing engine. This release brings major enhancements in traffic analysis capabilities, particularly...

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AI-Driven Networks: A ML Solution for 5G Networks based on nProbe

In this contributed post the Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal, explains how nProbe has be successfully used in 5G networks.   Introduction As networks evolve to meet the...

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Exporting (Custom) Flows with Avro in nProbe Cento

This summer we introduced nProbe Cento 2.0. Before this release, Cento was supporting JSON serialization only when exporting flows to Kafka. JSON is straightforward and widely used, but it can be...

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