My UDM router does all of that.
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What are wanting to see and for what purpose?
Unknown unknowns
I'll probably get boo'd but NetData covers just about everything I could want to monitor, and then some. If you don't want to hook up to the mother ship, you can use the /v3 switch in the url on your homarr dash, or equal like:
https://netdata.mycoolserver.duckdns.org/v3
Also, as has been mentioned, ntopng is pretty awesome as well.
ntopng has all of that. I'm currently hosting it on my home router.
+1 for this.
You need to see all the data flowing through a sensor to be able to map it, so a router / firewall is often the central point.
I run it as an addon for pfSense and it'll show me all sorts of info.
If you setup the GeoIP you can see which countries your network's connecting too... interesting for torrents...
What are your country hotspots for what kind of content? (e.g. if you primarily aquire movies, shows, anime, linux isos, misc.)
It varies of course, but most of my torrents are movies and linux ISOs (for real)
I seed any Movies I leech at a 2:1 ratio... most are leeched from Europe, but I've had them from Canada, South America, Asia, but weirdly not many from North America.
I like to give back more to the Linux community, so I'm constantly seeding Arch & Mint ISOs (as that's just what I'm using... maybe something Raspberry-ish) - they go everywhere.
I had a weird instance once where the same Chinese IP address was constantly re-downloading the same ISO. Could've been a VPN endpoint, but after I'd shared something like 40:1 there, I started using GeoIP to block it and similar regions I was uncomfortable with... so the world's becoming smaller for me.
I see some US connections on my end but usually the South America, Europe and some lesser known countries around the world (Primarily private trackers with a healthy mix of movies and anime and rarely tv shows).
China comes up often for me.
Can't you just use Kali for that?
Depending on how you intend to use Kali, that's either a bad idea or a terrible idea. Don't use Kali bo for long running processes.
Just get a router with that feature or flash a firmware with that feature.
This really depends on your network hardware. At a minimum it'll need to support snmp and you can build something in zabbix, or preferably it'll support netflow.
SNMP monitoring can give you a realtime visualize all the device connected to a network, different subnets, etc, and show the flow of data for each network device.
also zabbix
There's also The Dude - although it's a Windows-only application. But the visualisation is great.
Can it discover non Mikrotik devices?
The version I had played around with about 10 years ago could.
I've used about 10 years ago too, but I've heard that now it needs a Mikrotik device but I've nver had the time to test it
The closest project to this that I can think of would be Netbox
Netbox is a documentation tool. You can plug in Napalm to do some stuff but it mostly exists to catalog the intended state of the network.
It's a wonderfully powerful tool, and Stretch has done a great job with it...but it's not an analysis tool, it's documentation.
Stretch is a pretty cool guy too. He strikes me as the kind of person that really wants to help colleagues "see the light" of the role Python and FOSS can play in network automation and maintenance. I respect that, a lot...finding enjoyment in the way you do things, and wanting to share that with other people.