ntop is a software company specializing in high-performance network traffic monitoring tools. It develops both open-source and commercial applications for real-time traffic analysis, cybersecurity, and enhanced network visibility. Its tools are compatible with industry standard network monitoring technologies including NetFlow and PCAP, and include a suite of products such as ntopng, nDPI, nProbe, n2disk, PF_RING, nScrub, and an on-premises AI network analyst called nAnalyst.
What it's for
Network Visibility & MonitoringNetwork Performance & ObservabilityThreat Detection & Network SecurityFlow Collection & Traffic AnalyticsCapacity Planning & Troubleshooting
Features 17
- 100+ Gbps flow probing with zero-copy PF_RING ZC via nProbe Cento
- Activity logging for compliance, auditing, and forensics
- Bandwidth monitoring via NetFlow and sFlow
- Branch office and WAN edge probe deployment
- Deep packet inspection (Layer 7 classification) via nDPI
- Flow analytics and host/app tracking
- Horizontal scalability to 100 Gbit+ across distributed networks
- Industrial IT/OT/SCADA monitoring alongside standard IT infrastructure
- Lossless packet capture with nanosecond-precision indexing (n2disk)
- NetFlow v5/v9/IPFIX flow export and collection via nProbe
- Observability for latency spikes, packet loss, and degradation
- On-premise DDoS scrubbing for volumetric attack mitigation (nScrub)
- On-premises AI network analyst (nAnalyst) for anomaly detection and root cause analysis
- PCAP traffic replay for testing and forensic reconstruction (disk2n)
- Real-time and historical network traffic analysis
- Threat detection for lateral movement and data exfiltration
- Zero-copy packet capture acceleration (PF_RING)
At a glance
free tier
TypeWeb app
DeploymentOn-premise
PlatformsWeb, Windows, macOS, Linux
Fornetwork administrators, network engineers
Resources
Pricing
ntop software is offered in Community (free, open source) and Professional/Enterprise (commercial) editions; pricing is not publicly listed.
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