Michael,
just to size the problem, how many flows ntopng generates every 5 minutes?

What you are asking is close to what we had in mind. i think that with some 
further iteration we can come up with a precise list of requirements

Cheers Luca

On 13 Oct 2014, at 18:22, Michael Pollock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Say I click on the interface (tcp://*:5556).  If I then click the tab for 
> “historical activity”, I see a graph of how much was being used over a period 
> of time, which is what I expect.  But next to that is “Protocols”.  I’d love 
> to keep that data somehow, too.  Also, you added a magnifying glass next to 
> each protocol.  If I click that, I only get taken to “active flows”.  I have 
> some that have many TB of data over time. I’d like to be able to go back and 
> see what was using that data and when. 
>  
> For example, we have a minor bit of slowness in our development network 
> around 2:00pm every day.  I can’t figure out exactly how to find what was 
> using all the bandwidth during that time without using a historical 
> interface, but unfortunately that takes up so much data that it’s basically 
> unusable for me.
>  
> Thanks!
>  
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> Michael Pollock
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> From: [email protected] 
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> Subject: Re: [Ntop] How to reduce size of historical interface database
>  
> Michael,
> if you have this traffic increase then you have a lot of traffic to monitor. 
> is this the case? What would you like to save exactly?
> 
> We have started to add ElasticSearch support in ntopng, and this is another 
> option to use instead of SQlite. But all these are experiments until we find 
> a solution we like.
> 
> Does anyone has a suggestion perhaps?
> 
> Regards Luca
> 
> On 10/10/2014 05:44 PM, Michael Pollock wrote:
> I enabled the historical interface, but the database was growing at about 1 
> GB every 5 minutes.  Is there any way to reduce this? 
>  
> It looks like SQLite (which I am not familiar with, unfortunately) is just a 
> series of plain text files.  Is there any way to compress this or just store 
> the overall usage data?  Without historical data, this utility isn’t nearly 
> as useful.
>  
> Thanks for anyone who can offer a suggestion!
>  
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