vflow: A Go repository from Edgio

High-performance, scalable and reliable IPFIX, sFlow and Netflow collector (written in pure Golang).

Features

IPFIX RFC7011 collector
sFLow v5 raw header / counters collector
Netflow v5 collector
Netflow v9 collector
Decoding sFlow raw header L2/L3/L4
Produce to Apache Kafka, NSQ, NATS
Replicate IPFIX and sFlow to 3rd party collector
Supports IPv4 and IPv6
Prometheus and RESTful APIs monitoring

Documentation

Decoded IPFIX data

The IPFIX data decodes to JSON format and IDs are IANA IPFIX element ID

{"AgentID":"192.168.21.15","Header":{"Version":10,"Length":420,"ExportTime":1483484642,"SequenceNo":1434533677,"DomainID":32771},"DataSets":[[{"I":8,"V":"192.16.28.217"},{"I":12,"V":"180.10.210.240"},{"I":5,"V":2},{"I":4,"V":6},{"I":7,"V":443},{"I":11,"V":64381},{"I":32,"V":0},{"I":10,"V":811},{"I":58,"V":0},{"I":9,"V":24},{"I":13,"V":20},{"I":16,"V":4200000000},{"I":17,"V":27747},{"I":15,"V":"180.105.10.210"},{"I":6,"V":"0x10"},{"I":14,"V":1113},{"I":1,"V":22500},{"I":2,"V":15},{"I":52,"V":63},{"I":53,"V":63},{"I":152,"V":1483484581770},{"I":153,"V":1483484622384},{"I":136,"V":2},{"I":243,"V":0},{"I":245,"V":0}]]}

Decoded sFlow data

{"Version":5,"IPVersion":1,"AgentSubID":5,"SequenceNo":37591,"SysUpTime":3287084017,"SamplesNo":1,"Samples":[{"SequenceNo":1530345639,"SourceID":0,"SamplingRate":4096,"SamplePool":1938456576,"Drops":0,"Input":536,"Output":728,"RecordsNo":3,"Records":{"ExtRouter":{"NextHop":"115.131.251.90","SrcMask":24,"DstMask":14},"ExtSwitch":{"SrcVlan":0,"SrcPriority":0,"DstVlan":0,"DstPriority":0},"RawHeader":{"L2":{"SrcMAC":"58:00:bb:e7:57:6f","DstMAC":"f4:a7:39:44:a8:27","Vlan":0,"EtherType":2048},"L3":{"Version":4,"TOS":0,"TotalLen":1452,"ID":13515,"Flags":0,"FragOff":0,"TTL":62,"Protocol":6,"Checksum":8564,"Src":"10.1.8.5","Dst":"161.140.24.181"},"L4":{"SrcPort":443,"DstPort":56521,"DataOffset":5,"Reserved":0,"Flags":16}}}}],"IPAddress":"192.168.10.0","ColTime": 1646157296}

Decoded Netflow v5 data

{"AgentID":"114.23.3.231","Header":{"Version":5,"Count":3,"SysUpTimeMSecs":51469784,"UNIXSecs":1544476581,"UNIXNSecs":0,"SeqNum":873873830,"EngType":0,"EngID":0,"SmpInt":1000},"Flows":[{"SrcAddr":"125.238.46.48","DstAddr":"114.23.236.96","NextHop":"114.23.3.231","Input":791,"Output":817,"PktCount":4,"L3Octets":1708,"StartTime":51402145,"EndTime":51433264,"SrcPort":49233,"DstPort":443,"Padding1":0,"TCPFlags":16,"ProtType":6,"Tos":0,"SrcAsNum":4771,"DstAsNum":56030,"SrcMask":20,"DstMask":22,"Padding2":0},{"SrcAddr":"125.238.46.48","DstAddr":"114.23.236.96","NextHop":"114.23.3.231","Input":791,"Output":817,"PktCount":1,"L3Octets":441,"StartTime":51425137,"EndTime":51425137,"SrcPort":49233,"DstPort":443,"Padding1":0,"TCPFlags":24,"ProtType":6,"Tos":0,"SrcAsNum":4771,"DstAsNum":56030,"SrcMask":20,"DstMask":22,"Padding2":0},{"SrcAddr":"210.5.53.48","DstAddr":"103.22.200.210","NextHop":"122.56.118.157","Input":564,"Output":802,"PktCount":1,"L3Octets":1500,"StartTime":51420072,"EndTime":51420072,"SrcPort":80,"DstPort":56108,"Padding1":0,"TCPFlags":16,"ProtType":6,"Tos":0,"SrcAsNum":56030,"DstAsNum":13335,"SrcMask":24,"DstMask":23,"Padding2":0}]}

Decoded Netflow v9 data

{"AgentID":"10.81.70.56","Header":{"Version":9,"Count":1,"SysUpTime":357280,"UNIXSecs":1493918653,"SeqNum":14,"SrcID":87},"DataSets":[[{"I":1,"V":"0x00000050"},{"I":2,"V":"0x00000002"},{"I":4,"V":2},{"I":5,"V":192},{"I":6,"V":"0x00"},{"I":7,"V":0},{"I":8,"V":"10.81.70.56"},{"I":9,"V":0},{"I":10,"V":0},{"I":11,"V":0},{"I":12,"V":"224.0.0.22"},{"I":13,"V":0},{"I":14,"V":0},{"I":15,"V":"0.0.0.0"},{"I":16,"V":0},{"I":17,"V":0},{"I":21,"V":300044},{"I":22,"V":299144}]]}

Supported platform

Linux
Windows

Build

Given that the Go Language compiler is installed, you can build it with:

go get github.com/EdgeCast/vflow/vflow
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/EdgeCast/vflow

make build
or
cd vflow; go build

Installation

You can download and install pre-built debian package as below (RPM and Linux binary are available).

dpkg -i vflow-0.9.0-x86_64.deb

Once you installed you need to configure the below files, for more information check configuration guide:

/etc/vflow/vflow.conf
/etc/vflow/mq.conf

You can start the service by the below:

service vflow start

Kubernetes

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/EdgeCast/vflow/blob/master/kubernetes/deploy.yaml

Docker

docker run -d -p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 spotify/kafka
docker run -d -p 4739:4739 -p 4729:4729 -p 6343:6343 -p 8081:8081 -e VFLOW_KAFKA_BROKERS="172.17.0.1:9092" mehrdadrad/vflow

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")

Contribute

Welcomes any kind of contribution, please follow the next steps:

Fork the project on github.com.
Create a new branch.
Commit changes to the new branch.
Send a pull request.

Edgio/vflow