Software Engineering Institute

In this presentation, given at FloCon 2017, Luca Deri discusses flow-based monitoring, troubleshooting, and security using nProbe. For years monitoring tools focused on standards often fostered by vendors: NetFlow vs sFlow vs SNMP, Cisco vs Juniper. This has plagued the market by creating tools more vendor oriented instead of result oriented. Fortunately, recent advances in computing and, in particular, the big data movement have pushed companies to overcome the market/vendor fragmentation and produce tools able to produce data in a standard format (often JSON) that could be consumed even by non-monitoring toots (e.g., Hadoop, ElasticSearch).