Installer ntopng avec Homebrew, Nix, apt

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• ntopng

Historique du projet

ntop's own 2013-05-01 announcement framed ntopng as a restart 15 years after the first ntop release in 1998. The post says the old codebase had become too old, complicated, and bug-prone for newer requirements such as multi-Gbit links, mobile hosts, cloud/decentralized monitoring, and application-protocol visibility.

The same announcement identified core design choices that still explain the package: open source, self-contained, Redis-backed caching, nDPI-centered protocol identification, PF_RING support for high-rate capture, C++ implementation, and a real-time monitoring focus.

Historique d'adoption

ntopng sits in the broader ntop ecosystem with nDPI, PF_RING, nProbe, and related commercial/open-source traffic-analysis tools. Its GitHub repository was created on 2015-04-30 and the project is distributed through Homebrew, Linux packages, and ntop's own installation channels.

Its adoption is strongest with network operators and homelab or appliance users who want a local web UI for interface traffic, flow collection, host/application visibility, and alerting without building a full observability stack from scratch.

Modes d'utilisation

Package users generally run Redis, start `ntopng` against one or more interfaces or flow endpoints, then use the web UI on the configured HTTP port. The upstream docs show use as a flow collector with nProbe, hierarchies of ntopng instances, command-line access to REST/Lua endpoints, separate Redis database IDs for multiple local instances, and virtual interface views that aggregate physical interfaces.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

The package is historically interesting because it is a rewrite born from operational scaling pressure: ntop had the name and user base, but ntopng is where the project adapted to DPI, flow collection, Redis-backed state, and web-first traffic analysis.

Chronologie

• 1998: first ntop generation, according to ntop's 2013 ntopng announcement.
• 2013-05-01: ntop announced ntopng as a new-generation replacement direction.
• 2015-04-30: GitHub repository created.

Related projects

• ntop
• nDPI
• PF_RING
• nProbe
• n2disk

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/ntop/ntopng
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ntopng
• https://github.com/ntop/ntopng
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ntop/ntopng/dev/doc/README.md
• https://www.ntop.org/its-time-for-a-completely-new-ntop-say-hello-to-ntopng/
• https://www.ntop.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/2606