Tag: infrastructure monitoring

Announce

Using ClickHouse Cloud with ntopng

We are happy to announce that from the latest ntopng dev (6.1) version, ntopng supports exporting data (flows & alerts) to ClickHouse Cloud. Below you can find a step-by-step guide. Quick Start First of all let’s start by creating our account and service on the ClickHouse Cloud (you can find the official guide here); remember to save the ClickHouse username and password used for accessing your database. After that we have to jump to the ‘Connect’ section: Then, we have to select MySQL, turn on “Enable the MySQL protocol” and …
Features

How we Improved Alarm Delivery in ntopng

Sometimes, a critical issue shows up in your network and you’d like to be notified by ntopng on Telegram or by E-Mail. ntopng allows you to filter alerts for each recipient based on a few criteria including alert family, category, severity, or affected hosts. However in some case you want to be notified about a very specific alert, out of all alerts produced with the same family, category, severity. For example, it’s important to be notified when an Interface has no traffic, or when a new device (MAC) connects or …
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Infrastructure Monitoring: Observing The Health and Status of Multiple ntopng Instances

Introduction Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal). In other words: who will guard the guards themselves? If you use ntopng to monitor your network, you also need to make sure ntopng is monitored as in case of failure, ntopng will not report any alert, and the network administrator can interpret that as a sign of good health, instead of interpreting it as lack of monitoring.Recent 4.3+ versions of ntopng have the capability to monitor other ntopng instances, being them in the same local LAN or physically/geographically distributed. This capability, also referred …
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