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...
View ArticleHowTo 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...
View ArticleObservability: 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...
View ArticlePost-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...
View ArticleNetwork 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...
View ArticleCapacity 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...
View ArticleSlow 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...
View ArticlenProbe 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...
View ArticleHowTo 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:...
View ArticleHowTo 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...
View ArticleBest 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...
View ArticleHowTo 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),...
View ArticleHowTo 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticlenProbe 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...
View ArticleMonitoring 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...
View ArticleIntroducing 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...
View ArticleReleased 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...
View ArticleAI-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...
View ArticleExporting (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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