Brian,
I have used Akvorado in an environment with ~80G of traffic and I was
super happy.
It can be easily set via a docker-compose file and amongst its key
benefits is the user-friendly UI that allows you to gain insight into
your network traffic.
There is also a demo instance available to find out what to expect:
https://demo.akvorado.net/
My only "concern" was that it did not provide an API for consuming data
externally.
- Marinos
On 3/27/2024 2:55 AM, Andrew Hoyos wrote:
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
