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Matteo Biscosi

Over 18 months, Beppe Biscosì engineered core features and stability improvements for the ntop/ntopng repository, focusing on network analytics, asset management, and observability. He developed and refined data aggregation, timeseries analytics, and protocol support using C++, Lua, and Vue.js, enabling deeper visibility into network flows and assets. His work included backend enhancements for flow aggregation and exporter analytics, UI migrations to Vue.js for dashboards, and integration of RESTful APIs with Swagger documentation. By addressing reliability, data integrity, and user experience, Biscosì delivered robust solutions that improved monitoring accuracy, streamlined workflows, and supported scalable, maintainable network operations for enterprise deployments.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

36%Features

Repository Contributions

821Total
Bugs
387
Commits
821
Features
217
Lines of code
344,675
Activity Months18

Work History

March 2026

30 Commits • 15 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 delivered a focused blend of ASN analytics enhancements, dashboard reliability improvements, and UI polish across ntopng and ntopng-dist. Key outcomes include: (1) ASN stats page refactor with new filters and profiling, enabling faster, deeper data exploration; (2) ASN timeseries performance improvements reducing workload and improving responsiveness; (3) role-based data filtering to enhance data governance and access control; (4) comprehensive UI refresh and frontend cleanup in dist, including chart styling and responsive layout; and (5) several stability fixes for dashboards and timeseries under slow/high-load conditions. Major bug fixes address snapshot failures, top timeseries refresh issues, ASN historical filter reliability, and emission/calculation correctness in dashboards, delivering more reliable analytics and lower operational risk. Overall, these changes improve data accuracy, reduce time-to-insight, and simplify maintenance. Technologies and skills demonstrated include frontend refactoring, performance profiling and optimization, CSS/SCSS stabilization, UI/UX improvements, dependency cleanup, and ClickHouse integration refinements.

February 2026

36 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary — ntopng and ntopng-dist Overview: - Focused on UI stability for Vue.js dashboards, reliability of timeseries rendering, API visibility through Swagger docs, and build artifact hygiene. Delivered exporter-site integrations on reporting pages and a consolidated distribution/build update pass to improve deployment consistency. Key deliverables include API visibility, exporter-site integrations, and stable dashboards, with a strong emphasis on business value: improved data reliability, faster integrations, and smoother releases across two repos (ntopng and ntopng-dist).

January 2026

45 Commits • 10 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 (2026-01) ntopng monthly summary focused on code health, reliability, and UX improvements with clear business value. Key outcomes include reduced technical debt, more robust alerting, faster troubleshooting, and richer real-time insights for capacity planning and incident response.

December 2025

43 Commits • 14 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 performance summary for ntop/ntopng highlights a focused set of business-value delivering features, substantial reliability fixes, and notable workflow improvements across protocols, data streams, and UI. The month emphasized stability, observability, and expanded protocol support to enhance monitoring capabilities for customers and assets. Key features delivered: - ClickHouse: Added delimiter and null value handling to stream downloads, enabling safer and more flexible data exports. - Modbus: Implemented Modbus flow details page and included Modbus info in assets; added Modbus stats table name, improving diagnostic insight and asset traceability. - S7Comm: Delivered initial page details and historical data support including filtering, enabling deeper historical analysis of S7Comm traffic. - Interface and pinger improvements: Reworked alias interface checks and ensured interfaces with IPs are used by pingers to improve accuracy of reachability checks. - Asset management enhancements: Introduced assets log preference and fixed assets inventory/preference issues and key conflicts to stabilize asset-related UX and data collection. - UI/navigation and exporter experience: Reworked navigation between probes/exporters and updated exporters page dist/UI for smoother workflows. Major bugs fixed: - Timeseries stability: Ensured consistent colors across updates and addressed empty timeseries rendering in the dashboard. - Flow analytics: Corrected timeframe and improved flow alert descriptions for accurate event signalling. - Guardrails: Added nil indexing guard to prevent runtime errors; fixed Modbus title display; fixed various network maps color rendering issues. - Build and cleanup: Resolved a compilation issue, removed tprint debug leftovers, and cleaned up unused parameters to reduce technical debt. - Asset/ SNMP issues: Fixed assets related issues with cento MACs, improved SNMP usage page display and SNMP exporter polling labeling. - Misc UI/UX fixes: Fixed view option parsing edge cases, added header class column, and provided GUI fixes for charts and tables. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved data reliability, export quality, and historical analytics readiness across key protocols (Modbus, S7Comm), and enhanced asset management visibility. - Strengthened monitoring and alert accuracy with corrected timeframes and descriptions, lowering incident handling time. - Enhanced user experience and developer productivity through navigation improvements, UI fixes, and build stability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Backend data processing and visualization integration (ClickHouse streaming, timeseries handling). - Protocol support and analytics (Modbus, S7Comm, SNMP/OT enhancements). - Frontend/UI/UX improvements (charts, headers, navigation, exporters pages). - Quality and reliability focus (guard conditions, compilation fixes, code cleanup, asset handling enhancements).

November 2025

57 Commits • 12 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 ntopng monthly summary emphasizing key features and stability improvements across ASN data handling, UI, and data retention. Delivered fixes and enhancements that improve data accuracy, dashboards reliability, and administrative safety, reflecting strong business value through better monitoring, faster decision-making, and more maintainable code.

October 2025

32 Commits • 9 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 performance summary for ntop/ntopng: Delivered a mix of feature work, reliability fixes, and observability enhancements across the UI and data models. Key improvements include a default sorting setting on the As Stats page, a comprehensive exporters page suite (page, interfaces stats page, and details page), and a general sorting/search capability that enhances data discovery. Major bugs were resolved across UI consistency, data labeling, and data model hygiene, including incorrect flow labels, pre-NAT information removal, ClickHouse documentation cleanup, and various host pools/SNMP related fixes. Performance and maintainability were boosted by Redis request optimizations and targeted dist/build updates to ensure clean deployments. These efforts improve operator decision-making, user experience, and system reliability while reducing troubleshooting time and preparation for scale.

September 2025

39 Commits • 8 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 (2025-09) monthly summary for ntop/ntopng: Focused on delivering high-value features, stabilising data pipelines, and refining UI and release infrastructure. Key features include a new flow data aggregation function and enhanced tracing for Radius accounting, plus updates to nEdge distribution assets and host/location data. UI improvements lowered friction (ASN Community Edition removal of the date-time picker) and MAC location in the MACs page. Release dist updates cleaned up debugging prints and dist artifacts. Major reliability improvements include fixes to Sankey rendering, flow history filters, 95th percentile calculations, and ASN-related flows across community and enterprise versions. These efforts improved data accuracy, visibility, and operator efficiency, enabling faster troubleshooting and better decision-making.

August 2025

45 Commits • 12 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025: Delivered major feature enhancements and stability fixes across ntopng, elevating data visualization, workflow efficiency, and operational reliability. Key Sankey visualization improvements, a historical view for AS Overview, and UI/workflow enhancements in Host Pools, alongside backend/API reliability improvements and ongoing UI migration efforts. Several bug fixes reduced user friction in timeseries dashboards, REST interactions, and UI flows. Progress on maintainability artifacts (dist/update, merge conflict resolution) prepared the foundation for smoother deployments and future NDPI protocol handling.

July 2025

76 Commits • 15 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly performance summary for ntop/ntopng focused on ASN analytics enhancements, chart stability, UI polish, and build hygiene. Key work includes delivering extensive ASN time-series features on the ASN page with autorefresh and actions, stabilizing top ASN chart loading, expanding navigation and data exploration through AS overview and historical exporter links, and improving loading indicators across pages. Multiple UI/UX fixes and dist/build cleanups reduced maintenance risk and improved release confidence.

June 2025

32 Commits • 10 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for ntop/ntopng: Delivered stability-focused fixes, enhanced observability, and richer dashboards to improve reliability, data integrity, and decision-making. Key outcomes include exporter reliability, pcap traceability, InfluxDB internal DB checks, and expanded top apps visibility, plus ASN configuration and SNMP assets/UI improvements.

May 2025

42 Commits • 12 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for ntop/ntopng: Delivered targeted feature updates and critical stability fixes across dashboards, data collection, and visualization that drive faster insights and more reliable monitoring. Key feature outcomes include a refreshed pcap page, larger assets import capacity, assets tracing, hourly flow granularity with per-packet visibility, and expanded visualization capabilities (heatmap, historical flows charts). Added BPS render_type and fixed ASN flows THPT, along with other data-visualization enhancements. Major stability fixes reduced UI glitches and improved data integrity across monitors and reports (e.g., hiding assets when the infrastructure dashboard is active, active-monitoring GUI reliability, ProtoCounter initialization, removal of debug tprint, and improved Pcap/local-host messaging). Frontend tooling and TypeScript improvements also reduced build risk and improved maintainability, supporting faster delivery of analytics features.

April 2025

71 Commits • 22 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for ntopng development across ntop/ntopng and ntopng/ntopng repositories. Key features delivered improved device management and observability, while a broad set of frontend/UI and stability fixes enhanced reliability and user experience. The work increased automation readiness, reduced operational risk, and provided clearer data for troubleshooting and decision-making.

March 2025

29 Commits • 6 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 ntop/ntopng monthly summary focusing on delivering security visibility, policy management, and reliability improvements that drive better threat detection, asset visibility, and user productivity. The month combined customer-facing enhancements with internal reliability fixes to strengthen data accuracy, UI consistency, and deployment readiness.

February 2025

67 Commits • 17 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025: Delivered key features and stability fixes for ntopng, enhancing observability, data integrity, and user experience. Implemented Redis Timeseries support with accompanying UI updates, improved readability through SNMP aliases, and strengthened network policy validation with MAC address checks. Advanced QoE analytics with data modeling, serialization, and live UI improvements, and expanded sankey visualization capabilities. A broad set of reliability fixes across UI, APIs, and data processing reduced edge-case failures and improved operator confidence.

January 2025

60 Commits • 14 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 delivered meaningful business value through data integrity improvements, security tightening, and UX modernization across ntopng. Notable features include Asset Management merge data, ACL full/port-range support, and assets/hosts data enrichment with de-dup optimizations; REST endpoints for assets with inactive asset documentation; and a Vue.js-based Active Monitoring UI with distribution updates. The month also introduced timeseries labeling, asset collection controls, and a stronger password policy, complemented by a broad set of reliability and performance fixes across core pages, data dumps, and tooling.

December 2024

53 Commits • 18 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 delivered significant momentum across ntopng, focusing on policy enforcement, usability, and system stability. Key features introduced include the ACL Violation ARP Alert mechanism, network policy support, and extensive UI/UX improvements, complemented by a refresh of distribution assets to ensure reliable builds. The release also strengthened system integration through ZeroMQ mapping at startup/shutdown and enhanced alerting capabilities with API-level conversions, scoring thresholds, and consolidated alert UI. These changes underpin stronger threat detection, faster incident response, and easier administration in complex network environments.

November 2024

50 Commits • 17 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024: Implemented essential timeseries support and asset-management capabilities, stabilized data pipelines with targeted bug fixes, and expanded monitoring and API capabilities to support better analytics and asset visibility. Key outcomes include more accurate timeseries data (speedtest, InfluxDB, host), introduction and migration of the asset_management table, enhanced REST API, richer historical flows data, and early ACL scaffolding.

October 2024

14 Commits • 4 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 monthly summary for ntop/ntopng: Focused delivery across reliability, configurability, and observability to support both enterprise and edge deployments, while enhancing data quality and user experience. Major work spans bug fixes that stabilize core data flows, feature additions that increase configurability, and UI improvements that improve visibility and operations. Delivered improvements to SNMP, flow/host limits messaging, webhook handling, and interface telemetry, with solid gains in platform parity and operational insight.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness88.4%
Maintainability86.8%
Architecture82.4%
Performance82.6%
AI Usage20.8%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CC++CSSGitHTMLJSONJavaScriptLuaMarkdownNone

Technical Skills

backend development scriptingAPI DevelopmentAPI DocumentationAPI IntegrationAPI designAPI developmentAPI integrationAPI testingAccess Control ListsAccess Control Lists (ACLs)Alert ManagementAlertingAlerting SystemAlerting Systems

Repositories Contributed To

3 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

ntop/ntopng

Oct 2024 Mar 2026
18 Months active

Languages Used

C++JavaScriptLuaVueCCSSHTMLRST

Technical Skills

API IntegrationBackend DevelopmentBug FixC++C++ DevelopmentConfiguration Management

ntop/ntopng-dist

Feb 2026 Mar 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

CSSJavaScriptSCSS

Technical Skills

CSS stylingdata visualizationfront end developmentCSSJavaScript

ntopng/ntopng

Apr 2025 Apr 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

Vue

Technical Skills

Front End Development