What is ntopng
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ntopng is a web-based traffic monitoring application able to:

- Passive monitor traffic by passively capturing network traffic
- Collect network flows (NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX)
- Actively monitor selected network devices
- Monitor a network infrastructure via SNMP

The main difference between ntopng and a traffic collector, is that ntopng not only reports traffic statistics but it also analizes the traffic, draws conclusions on observed traffic type and reports cybersecurity metrics.

.. figure:: ./img/ntopng-main-components.png

Releases and Features
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ntopng development lifecycle is typically 6 to 9 months. The history of changes and features implemented by every release, is available on its `Changelog <https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/blob/dev/CHANGELOG.md>`_.

Please stay tuned and follow the ntop blog (http://blog.ntop.org) for all the latest news or visit the ntop
GitHub page at http://github.com/ntop.


Basic Concepts & Use Cases
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   basic_concepts/index
   use_cases/index

