Web-based network traffic monitor that analyses packets or flows to show top talkers, applications, hosts and alerts. Open source Community edition with paid Pro and Enterprise versions.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-3.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2013
- Status
- Active
- Website
- ntop.org
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Network monitoring checklist
7 of 10 confirmed in ntopng's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.
- SNMP polling Yes
- Flow analysis Yes
- Device discovery Yes
- Topology maps Not confirmed
- Latency and path Yes
- Bandwidth graphs Yes
- Syslog and traps Yes
- Configuration backup Not confirmed
- Alerting Yes
- Wireless Not confirmed
Checked against: ntop.org, github.com
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