# ntopng mit Homebrew, Nix, apt installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ntopng in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:ntopng ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install ntopng ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#ntopng ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/nt/ntopng/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install ntopng ``` Evidenz: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ntopng from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ntopng - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 6.6 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Next generation version of the original ntop - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-25T13:37:57+02:00 - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - ntopng (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 6.6 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung ntopng is the next-generation branch of ntop's network traffic monitoring line: a web-based traffic and security monitor built for modern multi-Gbit, application-aware networks rather than the late-1990s assumptions of the original ntop. ### Projektgeschichte ntop's own 2013-05-01 announcement framed ntopng as a restart 15 years after the first ntop release in 1998. The post says the old codebase had become too old, complicated, and bug-prone for newer requirements such as multi-Gbit links, mobile hosts, cloud/decentralized monitoring, and application-protocol visibility. The same announcement identified core design choices that still explain the package: open source, self-contained, Redis-backed caching, nDPI-centered protocol identification, PF_RING support for high-rate capture, C++ implementation, and a real-time monitoring focus. ### Adoptionsgeschichte ntopng sits in the broader ntop ecosystem with nDPI, PF_RING, nProbe, and related commercial/open-source traffic-analysis tools. Its GitHub repository was created on 2015-04-30 and the project is distributed through Homebrew, Linux packages, and ntop's own installation channels. Its adoption is strongest with network operators and homelab or appliance users who want a local web UI for interface traffic, flow collection, host/application visibility, and alerting without building a full observability stack from scratch. ### Wie es verwendet wird Package users generally run Redis, start `ntopng` against one or more interfaces or flow endpoints, then use the web UI on the configured HTTP port. The upstream docs show use as a flow collector with nProbe, hierarchies of ntopng instances, command-line access to REST/Lua endpoints, separate Redis database IDs for multiple local instances, and virtual interface views that aggregate physical interfaces. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren The package is historically interesting because it is a rewrite born from operational scaling pressure: ntop had the name and user base, but ntopng is where the project adapted to DPI, flow collection, Redis-backed state, and web-first traffic analysis. ### Zeitleiste - 1998: first ntop generation, according to ntop's 2013 ntopng announcement. - 2013-05-01: ntop announced ntopng as a new-generation replacement direction. - 2015-04-30: GitHub repository created. ### Related projects - ntop - nDPI - PF_RING - nProbe - n2disk ### Quellen - - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Linux: /etc/ntopng/ntopng.conf, /etc/ntopng/ntopng.start ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - ntopng: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/nt/ntopng/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - ntopng - 5.2.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ntopng from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool | http://www.ntop.org/products/ntop/ - Ubuntu apt - ntopng-data - 5.2.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ntopng-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool (data files) | http://www.ntop.org/products/ntop/ - Ubuntu apt - ntopng-doc - 5.2.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ntopng-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool (documentation) | http://www.ntop.org/products/ntop/ ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ntopng.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ntopng.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph