ElastiFlow™ provides network flow data collection and visualization using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana). It supports Netflow v5/v9, sFlow and IPFIX flow types (1.x versions support only Netflow v5/v9). This is an opensource project maintained by Rob Cowart and a really good alternative to compared other commercial NetFlow collectors.

SONiC is a subproject within the Open Compute Foundation https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/SONiC. Networking industry has primarily been operating similar to mainframes, i.e. you buy your hardware and software from the same vendor. Over the last decade we have been seeing the rise of disaggregated models where the end users could purchase hardware from a vendor but run software from another vendor. In this post we will do an introduction to SONiC and attempt to get kick started with…