As ntop is now useless, what are the alternatives?

Ser Olmy · 07-26-2013, 08:13 AM

The latest incarnation of ntop, the GPLv3-licensed "ntopng", depends on a closed-source, commercially licensed component ("nProbe") to actually collect data from the network.

Are there any good alternatives out there?

(Or perhaps someone would be interested in forking ntop/ntopng?)

chrism01 · 07-29-2013, 02:27 AM

Try http://www.tecmint.com/command-line-...ux-performance and look at iptraf, nethogs, iftop.
Collectl can monitor/check almost anything OS http://collectl.sourceforge.net/

Ser Olmy · 07-29-2013, 08:14 AM

None of those programs are remotely similar to ntop.

ntop passively collects and analyses network traffic and presents host and protocol statistics via a web interface.

szboardstretcher · 07-29-2013, 08:24 AM

That is a huge bummer.

These are not close to NTOP, but each serves a good function.

http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/
http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/
http://iptraf.seul.org/

I currently use observium at work, and darkstat at home ony a mirror-port OpenBSD NA box.

http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/

abdalians · 09-20-2016, 04:35 PM

@Ser Olmy did you find any alternatives?

frasilva · 09-28-2016, 01:47 PM

anyone have an open-source alternative for NTOPNG?

magarcia · 07-17-2018, 12:39 PM

Hi there,
I'm successfully using:
softflowd as probe
nfcapd to save flows as files
nfdump for human readable analysis
nfsen for graphical analysis
All free software.
This setup also supports IPv6 traffic.
Cheers!
M.A.Garcia