2022 RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research

Automation of Network Traffic Monitoring using Docker images of Snort3, Grafana and a custom API

16 Sept 2022, 09:20

20m

Room A

Paper presentation Cloud Computing and Network Virtualisation Session 1A - Cloud Computing and Network Virtualisation

Speakers

Mr Levente Manases (Technical Universiti of Cluj-Napoca) Daniel Zinca (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca)

Description

In this paper we present a mechanism to automate network traffic monitoring by using Docker images. The application has three parts: a Snort3 application for capturing network traffic, a Grafana application to display statistics on the dashboard and a custom API that makes the connection between Snort3 and Grafana. We pushed these images to DockerHub. An automation script that executes all needed steps, was created and published to a Github repository.