nfdump VS goflow

Compare nfdump vs goflow and see what are their differences.

goflow

The high-scalability sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX collector used internally at Cloudflare. (by cloudflare)
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nfdump goflow
4 6
735 818
- 1.3%
9.6 2.5
7 days ago about 1 month ago
C Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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nfdump

Posts with mentions or reviews of nfdump. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.
  • Netflow collector software for lab purpose
    3 projects | /r/networking | 24 Mar 2023
    https://github.com/phaag/nfdump its an "simple" collector. It is just an CLI tool. If you can utilize the cli it's a monster to analyze the raw data. if you need a fancy gui then this is the wrong collector.
  • real-time analytics / traffic capture on MX204
    3 projects | /r/Juniper | 1 Nov 2022
    Try the open source nfdump (this should also be a package in Debian/Ubuntu at least). You would configure 'nfcapd' to receive netflow data, then process it with 'nfdump' which is a commandline tool for obtaining statistics on traffic (e.g. top N IPs for bytes/flows, etc).
  • Cisco Netflow Help
    1 project | /r/networking | 7 Mar 2022
  • netflow analyzier free tools
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 9 Apr 2021
    For the quick look nfdump https://github.com/phaag/nfdump is in use. Since it is a CLI tool, it is not really suitable for managers.

goflow

Posts with mentions or reviews of goflow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nfdump and goflow you can also consider the following projects:

ntopng - Web-based Traffic and Security Network Traffic Monitoring

goflow2 - High performance sFlow/IPFIX/NetFlow Collector

pmacct - pmacct is a small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools [NetFlow IPFIX sFlow libpcap BGP BMP RPKI IGP Streaming Telemetry].

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

softflowd - softflowd: A flow-based network traffic analyser capable of Cisco NetFlow data export software.

vFlow - Enterprise Network Flow Collector (IPFIX, sFlow, Netflow)

silk - Silk File Reader

flow-pipeline - A set of tools and examples to run a flow-pipeline (sFlow, NetFlow)

akvorado - Flow collector, enricher and visualizer

ElastiFlow - Network flow analytics (Netflow, sFlow and IPFIX) with the Elastic Stack

loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.