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Data as of Oct 13, 2026Based on 35,780 AI responses
Reviewed by Dimitry Apollonsky
ntap is a virtual software tap that securely mirrors remote network traffic from hosts, containers, cloud environments to a central observation point, enabling packet capture for deeper analysis when flow-based tools are insufficient. It delivers traffic end-to-end encrypted over unidirectional UDP, supports BPF filtering to forward only relevant traffic, and can run in containers and virtual machines, including Kubernetes, delivering to virtual Ethernet interfaces or Open vSwitch. The architecture comprises an ntap remote component on the monitored device and an ntap collector that decrypts and forwards packets to ntopng, nProbe, or third-party tools such as Wireshark or Suricata.
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