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Telegraf sFlow input plugin
The Telegraf agent is bundled with an SFlow Input Plugin for importing sFlow telemetry into the InfluxDB time series database. However, the plugin has major caveats that severely limit the value that...
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InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxDB Cloud is a cloud hosted version of InfluxDB. The free tier makes it easy to try out the service and has enough capability to satisfy simple use cases. In this article we will explore how...
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Sunburst
The recently released open source Sunburst application provides a real-time visualization of the protocols running a network. The Sunburst application runs on the sFlow-RT real-time analytics platform,...
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Real-time Kubernetes cluster monitoring example
The Sunburst GPU chart updates every second to show a real-time view of the share of GPU resources being consumed by namespaces operating on the Nautilus hyperconverged Kubernetes cluster. The Nautilus...
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Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers
Cisco already supports industry standard sFlow telemetry across a range of products and the recent IOS-XR Release 7.5.1 extends support to Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers.Note: The ASR 9000 series...
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Cisco NCS 5500 Series Routers
Cisco already supports industry standard sFlow telemetry across a range of products and the recent IOS-XR Release 7.5.1 extends support to Cisco NCS 5500 series routers.Note: The NCS 5500 series...
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UDP vs TCP for real-time streaming telemetry
This article compares UDP and TCP and their suitability for transporting real-time network telemetry. The results obtained demonstrate that poor throughput and high message latency in the face of...
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Real-time telemetry from a 5 stage Clos fabric
CONTAINERlab described how to use FRRouting and Host sFlow in a Docker container to emulate switches in a Clos (leaf/spine) fabric. The recently released open source project,...
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Topology aware fabric analytics
Real-time telemetry from a 5 stage Clos fabric describes how to emulate and monitor the topology shown above using Containerlab and sFlow-RT. This article extends the example to demonstrate how...
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DDoS Mitigation with Cisco, sFlow, and BGP Flowspec
DDoS protection quickstart guide shows how sFlow streaming telemetry and BGP RTBH/Flowspec are combined by the DDoS Protect application running on the sFlow-RT real-time analytics engine to...
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Who monitors the monitoring systems?
Adrian Cockroft poses an interesting question in, Who monitors the monitoring systems? He states, The first thing that would be useful is to have a monitoring system that has failure modes which are...
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Real-time EVPN fabric visibility
Real-time telemetry from a 5 stage Clos fabric describes lightweight emulation of realistic data center switch topologies using Containerlab. This article builds on the example to demonstrate...
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Containerlab DDoS testbed
Real-time telemetry from a 5 stage Clos fabric describes lightweight emulation of realistic data center switch topologies using Containerlab. This article extends the testbed to experiment with...
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DDoS attacks and BGP Flowspec responses
This article describes how to use the Containerlab DDoS testbed to simulate variety of flood attacks and observe the automated mitigation action designed to eliminate the attack traffic.docker run --rm...
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Real-time flow telemetry for routers
The last few years have seen leading router vendors add support for sFlow monitoring technology that has long been the industry standard for switch monitoring. Router implementations of sFlow...
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BGP Remotely Triggered Blackhole (RTBH)
DDoS attacks and BGP Flowspec responses describes how to simulate and mitigate common DDoS attacks. This article builds on the previous examples to show how BGP Remotely Triggered Blackhole (RTBH)...
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Using Ixia-c to test RTBH DDoS mitigation
Remote Triggered Black Hole Scenario describes how to use the Ixia-c traffic generator to simulate a DDoS flood attack. Ixia-c supports the Open Traffic Generator API that is used in the article to...
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SR Linux in Containerlab
This article uses Containerlab to emulate a simple network and experiment with Nokia SR Linux and sFlow telemetry. Containerlab provides a convenient method of emulating network topologies and...
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DDoS detection with advanced real-time flow analytics
The diagram shows two high bandwidth flows of traffic to the Customer Network, the first (shown in blue) is a bulk transfer of data to a big data application, and the second (shown in red) is a...
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NVIDIA ConnectX SmartNICs
NVIDIA ConnectX SmartNICsoffer best-in-class network performance, serving low-latency, high-throughput applications with one, two, or four ports at 10, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200, and up to 400 gigabits per...
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