| Ntop | |
| Developer: | Luca Deri |
| Latest Release Version: | 5.0.1 |
| Latest Release Date: | [1] |
| Programming Language: | C |
| Platform: | Cross-platform Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Network analyzer |
| License: | GNU GPLv3 |
ntop is computer software that probes a computer network to show network use in a way similar to what the program top does for processes.
In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a web server, creating a HTML dump of the network status. It supports a NetFlow-sFlow emitter-collector, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRDtool (RRD) for persistently storing traffic statistics.[2]
ntop is available for both Unix and Win32-based platforms. It has been developed by Luca Deri, an Italian research scientist and network manager at University of Pisa.
Common usage on a Linux system is to start the ntop daemon, then one can use the web interface to ntop via visiting