Hi Richard, JSON is just a standard way to output data. Many modern tools such as Solr, Kafka, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, etc. are designed to smoothly ingest JSON-formatted data. So if you plan to use one of the mentioned software -- or, more in general, tools you may find in a big data ecosystem -- then very likely you'll have to use JSON to inject the data as it will be the less painful.
This doesn't mean that JSON is the 'best' or the 'most optimized' format. It's just widely used. Here is an interesting discussion: https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/issues/481#issuecomment-207730056 That staid, ntopng and nProbe have built in export features to multiple tools, including ElasticSearch and Kafka. So in this case you don't even have to touch the JSON as our software will do that transparently for you. Use JSON if you plan to build software that we do not natively support (e.g., search engines), or you want to build your own data processing pipeline. Simone On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Richard Troiano <rtroi...@poweron.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering how I would go about using the JSON data that is output by > the Export Data function in ntop? What tools exist to allow me to > import and manipulate this sort of data? I have no experience with JSON > (not much of a web guy myself) so if anyone could point me in the right > direction i’d appreciate it. > > > Thanks > *- * > Richard Troiano > Information Technology Support > > *PowerON Services, Inc. *8801 Washington Blvd. Suite 101 | Roseville, CA > 95678 > *rtroi...@poweron.com* <rtroi...@poweron.com> > > *Established 1994 - Celebrating 22 years of Business Success.* > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > Notice: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and > is protected by law. This message is not to be copied, forwarded, or > duplicated. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this > message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it is > strictly prohibited. > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > Ntop@listgateway.unipi.it > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop >
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