ipfixcol2
High-performance NetFlow v5/v9 and IPFIX collector (RFC7011) (by CESNET)
softflowd
softflowd: A flow-based network traffic analyser capable of Cisco NetFlow data export software. (by irino)
| ipfixcol2 | softflowd | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 115 | 152 | |
| 1.7% | - | |
| 7.3 | 6.2 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ipfixcol2
Posts with mentions or reviews of ipfixcol2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-06.
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Which open source netflow collectors are you using?
Personally a big fan of ipfixcol2, which allows me to dump collected packets straight into a queue, and allows me to ingest wonky custom fields that some of my vendors insist on using and not documenting.
softflowd
Posts with mentions or reviews of softflowd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Best way to generate connection logs
I also saw people using https://github.com/irino/softflowd in order to export NetFlow, could this be a ressource saving alternative?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ipfixcol2 and softflowd you can also consider the following projects:
nfdump - Netflow processing tools
ntopng - Web-based Traffic and Security Network Traffic Monitoring
ipt-netflow - Netflow iptables module for Linux kernel (official)
xenoeye - Lightweight Netflow/IPFIX collector
akvorado - Flow collector, enricher and visualizer
pmacct - pmacct is a small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools [NetFlow IPFIX sFlow libpcap BGP BMP RPKI IGP Streaming Telemetry].
FastNetMon - FastNetMon - very fast DDoS sensor with sFlow/Netflow/IPFIX/SPAN support
vFlow - Enterprise Network Flow Collector (IPFIX, sFlow, Netflow)