Hi Nanog Community We're looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc. Thank you in advance for your help KARIM
Netflow comes to mind without thinking before I push send. On Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 6:41 PM KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> wrote:
Hi Nanog Community
We’re looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc.
Thank you in advance for your help
KARIM
Akvorado is a good flow collector and visualiser, and best of all it’s open-source and free. https://github.com/akvorado/akvorado Regards, Christopher Hawker Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin.au@nanog.org> on behalf of KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> Sent: Friday, 28 February 2025 10:40:38 am To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Traffic Flow Analyzer Hi Nanog Community We’re looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc. Thank you in advance for your help KARIM
Hi, We use pmacct + postgres + grafana. This is a more flexible, but also more complex solution. Basically, as always. -- Regards, Aleksey Baluta
On 28 Feb 2025, at 04:43, Christopher Hawker <chris@thesysadmin.au> wrote:
Akvorado is a good flow collector and visualiser, and best of all it’s open-source and free.
https://github.com/akvorado/akvorado
Regards, Christopher Hawker
Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin.au@nanog.org> on behalf of KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> Sent: Friday, 28 February 2025 10:40:38 am To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Traffic Flow Analyzer
Hi Nanog Community
We’re looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc.
Thank you in advance for your help
KARIM
I've looked at Akvorado and ElastiFlow. I had issues in getting both of them online, but was able to get ElastiFlow past the line first, so that's what I went with. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "KARIM MEKKAOUI" <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2025 8:40:38 PM Subject: Traffic Flow Analyzer Hi Nanog Community We’re looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc. Thank you in advance for your help KARIM
On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:40:38 +0000 KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> wrote:
We're looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc.
This topic comes up from time to time. You might find a collection of options from the last time I remember it discussed on list: <https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2022-January/thread.html#217354> John
Hi, For those who may still be interested in this topic, we have had very good experiences with elastiflow. The data is delivered from Juniper switches via ipfix and the elastiflow server was simply set up using docker. Two instructions were very helpful here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/ Elastiflow itself once had a nice article from-zero-to-flow-setting-up-elastiflow-in-minutes, but it is no longer available on their blog. But this article seems to build it the same way. https://medium.com/@ebisong18/from-zero-to-flow-setting-up-elastiflow-in-min... Best regards Sven Am 28.02.2025 um 15:29 schrieb John Kristoff:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:40:38 +0000 KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> wrote:
We're looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc. This topic comes up from time to time. You might find a collection of options from the last time I remember it discussed on list:
John
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For my needs, Akvorado used substantially less resources and was ultimately easier to use than ElastiFlow, but yes there was a learning curve to getting Akvorado going/configured initially. I chose to deploy Akvorado using their docker deployment method. Regards, Graham ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+graham.johnston=execulinktelecom.ca@nanog.org> on behalf of KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2025 8:40 PM To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Traffic Flow Analyzer Hi Nanog Community We’re looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc. Thank you in advance for your help KARIM
Check out FlowViewer: http://flowviewer.net/ On 2/27/2025 9:40 PM, KARIM MEKKAOUI wrote:
Hi Nanog Community We’re looking for a (open source, free, cost effective) tool that is able to analyze traffic flow coming from a couple of router interfaces and display capacity utilisation per IP, top talkers, etc. Thank you in advance for your help KARIM
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