AdaptMON – Adaptive Network Monitoring Platform

AdaptMON is a C++23 platform for building high-performance applications that monitor and process network traffic.

Warning

Status and disclaimer

This project is under active development. All sources are work in progress and all APIs can change in the future without notice. No stability guarantees are provided at this stage.

Overview

Rather than targeting a single use case, AdaptMON provides reusable building blocks for the whole life cycle of network traffic processing — acquisition, parsing, analysis, filtering, editing, and generation. The platform is designed to scale from capture-file processing to high-speed live traffic.

The repository consists of a modular C++ library (amon-lib) implementing these building blocks and a set of command-line applications built on top of it. See the apps directory for details about the individual tools.

Building

Requirements

• Linux
• GCC 14 or newer (C++23)
• CMake 3.25 or newer
• DPDK (optional, enabled by default)
• libpcap (optional, enabled by default)

Installing requirements

On Fedora/RHEL-based systems, all build requirements can be installed automatically using the provided prepare-machine script:

./prepare-machine

The script installs the compiler toolchain, CMake, DPDK, libpcap and other development dependencies. It also supports a dev-container role for preparing a Docker-based development environment.

Alternatively, a Docker image with all dependencies preinstalled can be built and entered with:

# Build the development container image and enter it
make enter-dev-container

# Only build the image, then run it manually
make dev-container

Building the project

The project is built using CMake via the Makefile wrapper:

# Release build (default)
make

# Debug build with tests and sanitizers
make debug-build

# Run tests
make test

# Build RPM packages
make rpm

License

Released under the BSD 3-Clause license, © 2026 CESNET, z.s.p.o.