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Software that monitors network traffic, intrusions and connection stability (amongst others).

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Design-time and Run-time network diagram

Use case: Asked to provide a 'network diagram' prior to provisioning, along with the details of what is needed for provisioning (servers, how the servers relate to each other, cpu/ram/disk reqs, etc). ...
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IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi Radar

I'm frequently finding myself managing (and troubleshooting) an increasing number of networks that are (more or less) overrun with scores of 2.4GHz; 802.11; Wireless Access Points; and (for the most ...
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Android app to log network requests

Can anyone recommend an android app that will log all network requests? The log must include the following data: The name of the app that made the request The date/time the app made the request The ...
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Linux software that shows weekly Internet usage, broken down by domain

I want to see how the Internet usage from my Ubuntu 2013.10 machine is divided between hosts. Example: 43% Netflix 21% Jamendo 12% Wikicommons 8% Flickr 5% Mail.ru 3% Mysface [...] Requirements: ...
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Data usage monitoring

I want to get one of those wireless hubs that I can carry in the car to have internet access (with a data plan) on my devices (phone, tablet and laptop) when there's no Wifi available. I'm not sure ...
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Software to log employee activities and restict access in remote locations

We are trying to log all the employee work data on a daily basis. But the problem is we have branches at remote locations (non profit educational organization) where internet connections are very slow....
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Is there a solution which would allow me to easily monitor/control the traffic for all devices on my network at the hostname level?

I originally asked this question in a Superuser post but it was removed and I was told to post here. I'm a huge fan of the uMatrix browser extension which allows you to control and limit which ...
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What Windows/MacOS software to use for analyzing TCP/UDP connections from applications on Iphone, Ipad?

The application is installed on the iPhone, iPad. It sends both HTTP/HTTPS requests and TCP/UDP requests. Wi-Fi point configured on a Windows laptop. Iphone/Ipad connected to the Internet through this ...
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Software for granular real-time wifi strength monitoring

I have a Windows desktop machine with a nice wifi card in it, and I've just moved to a new temporary location. The router here is in the basement for some reason, so I've been having some connectivity ...
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Software that records the sent and received usage of a connection in Windows Network Connections and allow limits

Under Windows Control Panel, Network and Internet, Network Connections options, there are a list of connections. When double-click on any of the connection, a Status window will pop up displaying the ...
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Software that Controls and Limits Connections made by programs/services/windows

I'm looking for a software that shows me clear and detailed data for all my PC's Network Resources Usage (including Ping affection, Upload/Download Rate). I need it enables me to control (Block/Limit) ...
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Android App that tells which of my other apps are hogging the connection

I'm looking for an app that tells me which of my other apps in my smartphone uses up most of the bandwidth (aside: Is bandwidth the appropriate term to use here?). Background: My laptop connects to ...
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Looking for a service that maintains a database of global networking latencies

I was wondering if there is something like peeringdb.com that I can query about networking latencies between different internet locations. Peeringdb.com just shows which connections a network has and ...
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Where can I get ethernet frames encapsulatiing VoIP packets and also a tool to be able to read them?

I am looking to implement an Ethernet frame parser to extract IP packets from it and consolidate them and then extract the VoIP data from those packets. I could neither find any open source samples ...
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Lightweight CLI Website Uptime Monitoring

I'm looking for a very lightweight, open-source, linux CLI tool for monitoring the uptime of a set of websites. I do not want a tool that includes a web server. I'm thinking of something like mon, but ...
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Gratis iOS application to track how much WiFi data I currently use

I'm looking a gratis iOS application that can track how much WiFi data I currently use. I am aware of the the following applications, but they are not gratis: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/system-...
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Ping Monitor With Geographical Map

I’m looking for a ping monitor that allows me to enter in the addresses that the IPs are located and have it map out all monitored IPs on a geographical map. I’ve searched for a bit and the only thing ...
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Web based LAN devices monitoring dashboard tool

I'd like to be able to monitor the devices on my LAN (aka connected to my router). I just changed ISP and the default router is a bit lackluster in features, so I wanted to install some sort of ...
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Grab data (preferably using JSON format) of how much data traffic is leaving and coming into my computer?

Windows 10. Would prefer if this is built-in, but if it's trustworthy and free, I could use a third-party program. I'm looking for something which will let me grab data (preferably in JSON format) ...
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detect network malicious activity coming from own linux server

I have a VPS provider that is strictly disallows malicious activity like ssh-bruting, ddos, and such. I also have multiple users that use the single VPS machine, each allocated to one docker ...
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Like Firefox/Chrome's "Network" viewer but for entire OS. A Firebug or Web Inspector for all web traffic

I am looking for a way to see any images or XHR data that any apps on my Windows or Linux OS might be transmitting. Maybe I don't understand something crucial about the OSI stack, but I'm looking ...
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Tool to see network calls made by an Android app

I am trying to search for security vulnerabilities in the Android app and hence wanted to know the software which can help me to track the network calls being by an Android App. The software should ...
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Watch network requests or communication for processes

Some days ago I was wondering if it was possible to watch a certain process network communication, and I still haven't found that. I found Window's built-in Resource Monitor, and it actually does ...
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Simple, fast, light GNOME-like CPU/RAM/NETWORK/DISK monitor for taskbar/tray on Windows 10

There are many hardware monitors that exist for Windows, but I am looking for something a bit different. When I was a Linux user, I appreciated the system monitor applet very much. Its advantage ...
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Alternate (preferably Free) iOS App like Charles Proxy App

I'm looking for an alternate App (preferably Free) like Charles Proxy for iOS. The only features expected: View SSL requests as plain text Take action besides monitoring, like block / alter requests ...
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Software for capturing and editing packets for Windows

I'm looking for software that can capture and edit packets (before they "reach" my computer). Like Fiddler, but for another ports and protocols.
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Android (or iOS) app that monitors mobile data quality?

I want to survey an area to see the mobile network quality. I'll be doing this with a drone, and I was thinking of attaching an Android (iPhone is fine too I suppose if I must, but I'd rather use a ...
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Free layer 2 traffic generator for Windows like iperf

I'm looking for a free working tool to generate layer 2 Ethernet frames. It would be nice to have a tool like iperf or similar (iperf doesn't support link layer). In this question, I can find a few ...
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Software that can give me summaries of network speeds between different websites?

I have 3 basic websites in 3 countries: EU US ZA I want to be able to test the speed between these three servers. I.e. How fast they are when connecting to each other? How fast they are when ...
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Profiling and benchmarking TCP/IP connection software

Is there a good software to analyze the latency on TCP/IP (Ubuntu system) connection between two computers and Wireshark does not work for me. The measurement needs to be benchmarked and defined. My ...
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Connection monitoring tool

I'm having some problems with connection (randomly drops) and need to check whether it is problem with specific parts of hardware. Which is why I am looking for a tool for monitoring connection over ...
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An open-source firewall or library capable of doing deep SSH inspection?

I'm looking to build a firewall that will perform "man-in-the-middle" inspections on SSH traffic. It will decrypt, inspect and re-encrypt traffic. There are quite a few free solutions for SSL deep ...
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Monitor entire LAN traffic

There are home routers that are able to generate reports on how much traffic was downloaded from and uploaded to the internet, e.g. like that: Unfortunately, my home router is not able to do ...
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Are you aware of any tools for osx that can show my daily weekly and monthly internet usage?

Currently i am on the go and i need to monitor my data usage from the my mac. Do you know any tools (preferebly free) that i can see my network usage so i wont exceed my quota ? Thanks.
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I need a program that will record/log all of the IP addresses I have as they change

I have dynamically allocated IP addresses which changes every time my router powers off or disconnects for any reason (I have a somewhat reliable ISP so this could be multiple times a day). I need to ...
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Per-program, per-website bandwidth limiting software

I would like a recommendation for a free or low cost Windows program that will monitor incoming bandwidth and choose where it would be used best, and mainly, allow me to throttle the connection to ...
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Software to monitor file copy events

I've looked into filesystemwatcher/file system filter drivers... none of this does exactly what I want. I want to monitor a source file system (NAS) and when a copy command is executed on one of the ...
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Android app to show bandwith usage(speed) of apps

I am looking for an app like the android version of Netlimiter for Windows. I have tried some apps which promised to do the above but all they did is just show overall data usage. i.e App ABCD this ...
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Network bandwidth monitor

I have a usb 3g dongle which I use from time to time by plugging it into my router so that all computers on the network can use the 3g connection (as opposed to plugging the usb into a single computer)...
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Third party tools to scan ESX hosts, and retrieve the info, from inside my custom application

Currently we are trying to have the ability to scan our ESX hosts, so I want to run a tool which allows scanning ESX hosts inside a network. For example: a user enters the IP address, username and ...
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Capturing sent/recieved internet packets through Android

I'm looking for an Android application that reveals (logs) the sent internet requests and received responses' headers of any Android application.
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Tool which does network analysis similar to VRTA

There is a tool called Visual RoundTrip Analyzer (VRTA) on MS-Windows where all SYN and SYN-ACK and other components of a web-page are known alongwith the time they take. I know that most of the web-...
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Generate Network Report

Currently at my IT firm we are performing proactive maintenance on each of our clients servers, we're checking disk space, event viewer logs, OS updates, uptime, Anti-Virus updates, RAID Health and ...
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Software to determine how much GB of data is consuming per month

I have a Windows 7 PC and a broadband connection at my home. I have a iBall modem at home. I need a software to determine the amount of data am using each month. Specifications are - It should be ...
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Android application to show upload and download speed in the status bar only if the network traffic is above a defined threshold

I am looking for an Android application that can display your current speed in the status bar only if the network traffic is above a defined threshold. The application Internet Speed Meter can ...
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How to find URL of YouTube video being played by an Android app?

An app I use plays some YouTube videos, which are probably unlisted videos. Is there any way using network monitoring etc to identify the URL being accessed so that after copying that URL the ...
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Best software to monitor inbound and outbound connections including source and destination info

I have searched StackExchange, SuperUser, and the internet trying to identify software that will allow me to monitor inbound and outbound connections including source and destination info. NOTE: I am ...
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What to use to measure internet latency? Ping, lft, mtr, traceroute - I tried them all

I'm unable to measure latency to a server. I've tried ping, traceroute, lft and mtr with the default parameters. I always get a partial result: rob@Robs-2019 ~ % ping seau.gssv-fastlane-prod.xboxlive....
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Android Network Monitor

I'm looking for an Android app that: Is gratis and open-source Registers itself as VPN (so that it works without root) Shows all connections made on my device, with the following information: IP ...
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Linux network monitor showing connections per process

I'm looking for a network monitor running on Linux, showing me in real-time open connections the process owning them the target IP (and optionally port) allow me to "freeze" the output (i.e. pause ...
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