Ntop, a Web-based Network Traffic Monitoring Application

Ntopng is a web-based, open source, realtime traffic monitoring application for Windows and Unix systems. It is suitable for passively monitoring traffic and characterize it using nDPI (an open source DPI library developed and maintained by ntop). ntopng can be used as a passive network traffic sensor or as a collector if NetFlow/IPFIX flows generated by routers and switches. Monitoring data can be accessed using the ntopng web GUI, or ntopng can be used as a data source and export it on a SQL database, BigData system such as ElasticSearch, or time series database. Finally, ntopng can also be used inline for enforcing network policies by dropping selected application protocols, prioritizing traffic, as well protecting selected users from inappropriate content.

About Simone

Simone Mainardi received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Faculty of Information Engineering. He worked as a research associate both at the University of Pisa and at the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He is now with ntop as a Senior Data Scientist. He is interested in computer networking, parallel and distributed algorithms, Internet measurements and data analysis.