Brian,

Take a peek at Akvorado - https://github.com/akvorado/akvorado
We recently set up a lab instance, and seems to check the boxes below.

> On Mar 26, 2024, at 19:04, Brian Knight via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> What's presently the most commonly used open source toolset for monitoring 
> AS-to-AS traffic?
> 
> I want to see with which ASes I am exchanging the most traffic across my 
> transits and IX links. I want to look for opportunities to peer so I can 
> better sell expansion of peering to upper management.
>  
> Our routers are mostly $VENDOR_C_XR so Netflow support is key.
> 
> In the past, I've used AS-Stats <https://github.com/manuelkasper/AS-Stats> 
> for this purpose. However, it is particularly CPU and disk IO intensive. 
> Also, it has not been actively maintained since 2017.
> 
> InfluxDB wants to sell me 
> <https://www.influxdata.com/what-are-netflow-and-sflow/> on Telegraf + 
> InfluxDB + Chronograf + Kapacitor, but I can't find any clear guide on what 
> hardware I would need for that, never mind how to set up the software. It 
> does appear to have an open source option, however.
>  
> pmacct seems to be good at gathering Netflow, but doesn't seem to analyze 
> data. I don't see any concise howto guides for setting this up for my 
> purpose, however.
>  
> I'm aware Kentik does this very well, but I have no budget at the moment, my 
> testing window is longer than the 30 day trial, and we are not prepared to 
> share our Netflow data with a third party.
>  
> Elastiflow <https://www.elastiflow.com/> appears to have been open source 
> <https://github.com/robcowart/elastiflow?tab=readme-ov-file> at one time in 
> the past, but no longer. Since it too appears to be hosted, I have the same 
> objections as I do with Kentik above.
>  
> On-list and off-list replies are welcome.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> -Brian
>  

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