sFlow-RT 3.0 released

The sFlow-RT 3.0 release has a simplified user interface that focusses on metrics needed to manage the performance of the sFlow-RT analytics software and installed applications.

Applications are available that replace features from the previous 2.3 release. The following instructions show how to install sFlow-RT 3.0 along with basic data exploration applications.

On a system with Java 1.8+ installed:

wget https://inmon.com/products/sFlow-RT/sflow-rt.tar.gz
tar -xvzf sflow-rt.tar.gz
./sflow-rt/get-app.sh sflow-rt flow-trend
./sflow-rt/get-app.sh sflow-rt browse-metrics
./sflow-rt/start.sh

On a system with Docker installed:

mkdir app
docker run -v $PWD/app:/sflow-rt/app --entrypoint /sflow-rt/get-app.sh sflow/sflow-rt sflow-rt flow-trend
docker run -v $PWD/app:/sflow-rt/app --entrypoint /sflow-rt/get-app.sh sflow/sflow-rt sflow-rt browse-metrics
docker run -v $PWD/app:/sflow-rt/app -p 6343:6343/udp -p 8008:8008 sflow/sflow-rt

The product user interface can be accessed on port 8008. The Status page, shown at the top of this article, displays key metrics about the performance of the software.

The Apps tab lists the two applications we installed, browse-metrics and flow-trend, and the green color of the buttons indicates both applications are healthy.

Click on the flow-trend button to open the application and trend traffic flows in real-time. The RESTflow article describes the flow analytics capabilities of sFlow-RT in detail.

Click on the browse-metrics button to open the application and trend statistics in real-time. The Cluster performance metrics article describes the metrics analytics capabilities of sFlow-RT in more detail.

The API tab provides a link to Writing Applications, an introductory article on programming sFlow-RT.

Clicking on the Open REST API Explorer button to access documentation on the sFlow-RT REST API and make queries.

Applications lists additional applications that can be downloaded to export metrics to Prometheus, mitigate DDoS attacks, report on performance of leaf and spine networks, monitor an Internet exchange network, visualize real-time flows, etc.