# Akvorado

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## Netflow for home router & Linux servers

DevFeed: [Netflow for home router & Linux servers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/netflow-for-home-router-linux-servers-39773.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/04/netflow-for-personal-devices/>)

Published: 2026-04-09T20:20:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Personal blog of Anurag Bhatia](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/personal-blog-of-anurag-bhatia.md>)

Topics: [netflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/netflow.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [MikroTik](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mikrotik.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>)

Tags: [akvorado](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/akvorado.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [mikrotik](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mikrotik.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [netflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netflow.md>), [pmacct](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pmacct.md>), [router](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/router.md>)

### AI overview

The author describes running an open-source NetFlow collection setup for a home MikroTik router and Linux servers. They compare Pmacct and Akvorado, use Akvorado as the main system and Pmacct as a Linux exporter, and filter collected traffic to examine regular end-device usage.

### Source excerpt

For the last few weeks, I have been running a NetFlow collector for the home router. This is something I wanted to do for a long time, but I was missing the time to invest. There are a few open source options, and I guess many commercial solutions offering NetFlow, often bundled with other products. My personal monitoring is 100% open source and presently running Prometheus + Thanos + Node Exporter + Blackbox Exporter + SNMP Exporter + Grafana + Grafana Loki + a few more exporters. So I started looking for open source options which are still under active development and supported. Two of them are quite popular - Pmacct and Akvorado. Pmacct is extremely advanced, flexible, but at the same time overall complicated to set up (and maintain). Even their quickstart file 3100-line file is full of setup options. On the other hand, Akvorado seems simpler to maintain. Some complications, anyway, are expected with NetFlow because the goal is not just to collect the data but also to have a system to store it, analyse it, map IPs to location/AS numbers, etc., dashboards, etc. It's a tool developed by French ISP Free, which is part of the Iliad group, which also owns Scaleway. Setting up Akvorado is easy if you are familiar with Docker. They have a simple 4 command quick-start which deploys all their containers as part of the stack. They deploy a few containers as part of the overall stack. The big picture page on their demo site documentation covers the overall architecture. I started feeding it data from the home (Mikrotik) router and later also added various Linux servers/VMs I manage for R&D, DNS, as well as to host this blog and other infrastructure. For Linux, I am using Pmacct as an exporter, as Akvorado's documentation suggests using it in exporter mode and has a sample config which works. Some data Now that it's been running for a few weeks, I can see major sources of data coming to the home. Before jumping to data, it's important to note that I have regular camera feeds