Brian,
I have used Akvorado in an environment with ~80G of traffic and I was super happy.
It can be easily set via a docker-compose file and amongst its key benefits is the user-friendly UI that allows you to gain insight into your network traffic.
There is also a demo instance available to find out what to expect: https://demo.akvorado.net/
My only "concern" was that it did not provide an API for consuming data externally.
- Marinos
Brian,
Take a peek at Akvorado - https://github.com/akvorado/akvoradoWe recently set up a lab instance, and seems to check the boxes below.
On Mar 26, 2024, at 19:04, Brian Knight via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
What's presently the most commonly used open source toolset for monitoring AS-to-AS traffic?
I want to see with which ASes I am exchanging the most traffic across my transits and IX links. I want to look for opportunities to peer so I can better sell expansion of peering to upper management.Our routers are mostly $VENDOR_C_XR so Netflow support is key.
In the past, I've used AS-Stats for this purpose. However, it is particularly CPU and disk IO intensive. Also, it has not been actively maintained since 2017.
InfluxDB wants to sell me on Telegraf + InfluxDB + Chronograf + Kapacitor, but I can't find any clear guide on what hardware I would need for that, never mind how to set up the software. It does appear to have an open source option, however.pmacct seems to be good at gathering Netflow, but doesn't seem to analyze data. I don't see any concise howto guides for setting this up for my purpose, however.I'm aware Kentik does this very well, but I have no budget at the moment, my testing window is longer than the 30 day trial, and we are not prepared to share our Netflow data with a third party.Elastiflow appears to have been open source at one time in the past, but no longer. Since it too appears to be hosted, I have the same objections as I do with Kentik above.On-list and off-list replies are welcome.Thanks,-Brian