#NTOPNG GRAPHICAL HOW TO#

For Grafana installation instructions see Installing Grafana. Grafana and ntopng run on Linux and Windows, either on physical, virtualized or containerized environments. A running instance of ntopng version 3.1 or above.A running instance of Grafana version 4 or above.Configuring the ntopng Datasource Prerequisites To be able to use the aforementioned metrics inside Grafana dashboards, the ntopng datasource plugin must be installed and configured as explained below. Layer-7 application protocol metrics exposed are: Specifically, _bps and _pps are used for bit and packet rates (i.e., the number of bits and packets per second), whereas _total_bytes and _total_packets are used for the total number of bytes and packets over time, respectively.Ĭurrently, supported metrics carry traffic as well as Layer-7 application protocols metrics. Similarly, a suffix indicates the measurement unit. In general, interface metrics are prefixed with the string interface_ while host metrics are prefixed with the string host_. Each metric is identifiable with a unique, self-explanatory string. Ntopng exposes metrics for monitored interfaces as well as for monitored hosts. ntopng implements one of those datasource plugins, to expose metrics of monitored interfaces and hosts, including throughput (bps and pps) and Layer-7 application protocols e.g., (Facebook, Youtube, etc).

Those plugins provide a standardized way to deliver points to Grafana. Grafana interacts with tens of different data sources by means of datasource plugins. This means that you can build beautiful dashboards by simultaneously pulling points from data sources such as ntopng, MySQL and Influxdb, just to name a few. An extremely-well engineered architecture makes it completely agnostic to the storage where data resides. Grafana is an open platform for analytics and visualization.

#NTOPNG GRAPHICAL HOW TO#

This article explains how to install and configure the ntopng datasource plugin, and how to build a dashboard for the visualization of ntopng-generated metrics.

ntopng version 3.1 natively integrates with Grafana thanks to a datasource plugin which is freely available.

Grafana is one of the most widely known platforms for metrics monitoring (and alerting).

This article is outdated: please see this document for using ntopng with grafana Summary

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