Open Source Flow Monitoring and Visualization
At the heart of any reasonably sized network, should be a solid strategy around flow collection, querying and visualization. Proper use of flow logs are crucial to SecOps/NetOps from triaging attacks to capacity planning and traffic trending. I remember some 20 years ago, the first time I saw flow logs being visualized in rrdtools it was pretty close to magic. …
Building Network Tools using Docker
I am going to start pushing out an app every month that fixes some problem in networking. In this case I hacked it up over the past couple of weekends, but other times it will just be me using someones open source awesomeness and demoing it. First some thoughts on where we are in the wild world of networking to …