Colasoft News
New Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.4 Comes Hand in Hand With UPM Network Performance Management Platform v6.4
Chengdu, China, June 19, 2024 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.4 comes hand in hand with UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v6.4.
designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.
is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. Colasoft UPM collects all real-time analysis data from Colasoft nChronos which are deployed separately at the critical network links and provides operation staff with vivid and graphic working status of every node in the business network.
"The rapid growth of connected devices and technologies has led to a significant increase in network traffic. The surge in data flow puts immense pressure on network infrastructure, requiring robust capacity planning and bandwidth management to prevent congestion and ensure optimal performance. Meanwhil, the need for agility and flexibility in network management further complicates the landscape. Enterprises must adapt quickly to changing business requirements, deploy new services or applications seamlessly, and ensure scalability without disrupting existing operations. That makes the whole network visibility quite important. Colasoft has the ability to provide full raw packets to make things clear, and we significantly reduce the MTTR than anybody else." said Lin Kang, President of Colasoft. The new release of UPM provide a brand new Scene Center, which allows customers to have a clear understanding of the business logic of the entire network to achieve whole network visibility.
The latest release of nChronos features:
- Support extraction and push of protocol metadata.
- Enable calling third-party shared object (so) libraries during transaction decoding.
- Support transaction parsing for Mongo and PostgreSQL databases.
- SMTP configuration supports Oauth2.0 authentication.
- Enable import and export of virtual interface configurations.
- Add a status column in the interface configuration list to indicate the status of each interface.
- Support specifying the direction of the physical address when creating a physical address virtual interface.
- Add two new transmission medium types, Raw IP and Linux cooked capture, in interface configuration.
- Add DSCP statistics table in MAC sub-link analysis.
- Add "IP version" field in the statistics tables for service ports, IP sessions, TCP sessions, and UDP sessions.
- Add RTT and delay metrics in the DSCP statistics table.
- Support the identification and parsing of MSRDP_OVER_SSL, ISIS, and GMTLS protocols.
An evaluation version of nChronos v6.4 is available for download at
The latest release of UPM features:
- Support automatic business-based root cause analysis.
- Support LINE, Telegram, WeChat interface, renew the default API send method.
- Support ICMP logs analysis and retrospective.
- Support voip terminal automatic discovery terminal function supports upper and lower levels.
- Support all alert logs support additional information display and IP address support name table send.
- Support Report application chart, IP client, the server object statistical figure and table component.
- The system supports automatically associating out the path of the session trace.
- Support TCP, UDP service port no traffic alerts.
- Support UPM to supervisor monitor the nChronos performance of whole machine.
An evaluation version of UPM v6.4 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
New Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.3 Comes Hand in Hand With UPM Network Performance Management Platform v6.3
Chengdu, China, August 12, 2022 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.3 comes hand in hand with UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v6.3.
designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.
is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. Colasoft UPM collects all real-time analysis data from Colasoft nChronos which are deployed separately at the critical network links and provides operation staff with vivid and graphic working status of every node in the business network.
"For some large financial institutions and carriers, the call for the accuracy of traffic analysis is getting higher and higher. Based on this, after providing millisecond-level summary data and alarm functions, we also provide corresponding millisecond-level analysis capabilities for link and sub-link traffic analysis in the new version of nChronos and UPM. This enables users to accurately grasp the network status, while providing clearer directions and data support for network troubleshooting or network optimizing," said Eddie Gao, Director of NPMD Products at Colasoft. The new release of nChronos and UPM support the millisecond-level analysis function of sub-links, and also add a 5-minute time buckets, which to provide users more options for network analysis.
Colasoft new release of nChronos and UPM now supporting real-time and post-event analytics at up to 100G. Especially in nChronos, it have comprehensively updated and developed the product from five aspects, transaction analysis, traffic analysis, security and system optimization, indicator optimization, and data sharing. For UPM, it has made a bunch of functional updates and improvements in terms of load balancing monitoring, dial test, network performance analysis, alarms, reports, and search.
The latest release of nChronos features:
- Support Oracle, DB2, mysql (sqlcode ) decode and calculate analysis
- Support jflow analysis
- Support millisecond-level analysis of sub-links
- Support IP session table, point 1 shows the intranet address, point 2 shows external address
- Support the QUIC to realize the eigenvalue signiture analysis of such protocols
- Support geneve decode, and create the link by the virtual link of geneve type
- Support UPM offline suddenly and UPM close the autoSendConfig, nChronos would save the configuration UPM issued
- Support virtual link interface identification and expand the insert length to 20
- Support the user login security policy
- Support to add a communication address list when MAC address decode to IP calculate list
- Support network segment statistics table and summary statistics table Add the peak inbound and outbound network utilization
- Support add the TTL minimum times field to the permission IP session table
An evaluation version of nChronos v6.3 is available for download at
- SNMP information of integrated devices such as network topology
- Custom monitoring and reports support DSCP object analysis
- Support the millisecond level analysis function of network sub-links
- Added support for 5-minute time buckets
- Added the Top trend chart component to the field statistics of custom monitoring and transaction performance chart
- Add indicators such as ICMP response time and RTT to the trend diagram
- Added the function of defining applications based on protocols
- Supports intelligent analysis of IP addresses and IP sessions
- Support quickly obtain the relationship between the application and the link from the service configuration when add an application object
- Configure load balancing links and reports display
- Support baseline alarms for network segments and IP addresses, and generate alarms for objects that seriously deviate from the baseline
An evaluation version of UPM v6.3 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v15 with Brand-new User Interface
Chengdu, China, July 27, 2022 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of Capsa Network Analyzer v15, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.
The new Capsa 15 provides a brand-new user interface, in the new analysis interface, all the view tabs are adjusted to be listed on the left side, makes the interface simpler and user-friendly. Capsa 15 especially add global display filter setting and applying in head of the interface, which make it easier for users to pick out network traffic they focused on.
The latest release of Capsa features:
- Add global display filter function, users can set the global display filter in the analysis interface.
- Add host behavior analysis, analyze the network behavior of IP and services through statistical traffic data.
- Add filter expression session. Decrypted payload in TCP conversion, for details see Online help (F1).
- Users can directly set various items of analysis settings on the start page, and can customize the items to be set in the analysis settings.
- Add advanced filtering function for global display filter, users can write the relationship (and, or, not, and group) between each filter item through the advanced filtering function.
- Add judgment prompts for packet view. TCP Window Full (red), TCP ZeroWindow (red), and TCP Window Update (prompt).
- Add exporting pictures function to transaction sequence diagram in TCP transaction analysis.
- Add conversation TTL field for TCP conversation and UDP conversation.
Capsa v15 is compatible with Windows 11 and Windows Server 2019. to download a full functional trial for 30 days.
About Capsa
Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces New Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.2 And UPM Network Performance Management Platform v6.2
Chengdu, China, June 16, 2021 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of both nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.2 and UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v6.2.
designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.
is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. Colasoft UPM collects all real-time analysis data from Colasoft nChronos which are deployed separately at the critical network links and provides operation staff with vivid and graphic working status of every node in the business network.
With the increasing scale of network traffic, users have gradually increased the accuracy requirements of analysis system or tools. Both v6.2 of nChronos and UPM supports to analyze link traffic in millisecond level, which makes traffic analysis results more accurate.
In various industries, especially the financial industry, IPv6 is gradually being used. nChronos 6.2 fully supports IPv6. IPv6 is supported in DPDK capture interface configuration, management interface configuration, communication with UPM configuration, SMTP configuration, Syslog configuration, third-part login authentication configuration, security strategy configuration, agent configuration, audit log and client tools. Besides, multiple IPv6 related metrics are added to summary tab, application/application group tab and virtual network tab, including IPv6 bps, IPv6 Pkts, IPv6 Bytes, etc.
The latest release of nChronos features:
- Support no-transaction alarm.
- Support SSL transaction parsing.
- Support sublink alarm.
- Baseline alarm supports continuous trigger count configuration.
- Transaction log supports to export data in json format.
- Virtual interface configuration supports specified identity layer.
- Virtual sublink supports segment statistics.
- Segment sublink supports TCP conversation and UDP conversation statistics.
- Add IPv4 and IPv6 traffic statistics fields.
- Add HTTPS, POP3_SSL, SMTP_SSL packets truncating rules.
An evaluation version of nChronos v6.2 is available for download at
- Add alert setting in custom metric monitoring charts.
- Support template feature in custom metric monitoring.
- Add new components such as dashboard and top chart in custom metric monitoring.
- Add TCP conversation and UDP conversation in custom metric monitoring.
- Add SNMP in custom metric monitoring.
- Add object analysis feature bases on IP and application.
- Support time sequence in packet decoding.
- Add no traffic alarm for link, application, segment and IP.
- Add MAC address abnormal access alarm.
- Add TCP/UDP conversation multi-segment analysis.
- Support batch adding probes.
An evaluation version of UPM v6.2 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Joins Hands With Edvance to Deliver NPMD Solutions to Hong Kong And Macau Markets
Chengdu, China, May 26, 2021 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, and Edvance Technology (Hong Kong) Limited (“edvance”), a leading value-added distributor of cybersecurity solutions in Hong Kong, today announced the exclusive distributor partnership to provide Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) solution and value-added services in Hong Kong and Macau.
Colasoft will provide training, certification and projects engagement for practice development to edvance. “As one of the most important trade and financial centers in Asia, Hong Kong has many institutions and organizations set up here. These organizations have an increasing demand for NPMD solution to ensure that their business is safe and efficient, and they all require high-quality services.” said Ocean Yu, Vice President at Colasoft, “edvance has been deeply involved in the Hong Kong and Macau IT Security markets for several years, they are quite professional and experienced. We are quite honored to announce the strategic partnership, and hope we align our objectives for the benefits of our joint customers.”
“Due to the fact that enterprise network team is struggling between the growth and complexity of its network infrastructure, effective network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) technologies are increasingly desired as it addresses the challenges with its all-rounded functionalities including comprehensive monitoring and detection to diagnose problems that may adversely affect the performance and stability of enterprise’s key business. We believe that edvance, with its extensive enterprise and channel reach, is well positioned to effectively make Colasoft’s NPMD Solutions available to clients,” said Ms. Sammi Tsai, CEO, Edvance Technology (Hong Kong) Limited.
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
About Edvance Technology (Hong Kong) Limited
(Hong Kong) Limited is a leading value-added distributor of cybersecurity solutions in Hong Kong. We deliver cybersecurity products and services under three main domain areas, covering network security, application and data security, and identity and access management.
The team of professionals bring in new ideas and know-hows that safely enable clients to take advantage of new technologies.
Colasoft Announces Release of UPM Network Performance Management Platform v6.0 With New Interface
Chengdu, China, July 2, 2020 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v6.0. UPM is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. It is designed to improve operation efficiency and capability of network troubleshooting, and provides analysis ability such as business-centric network grooming, real-time network performance monitoring, and rapid issues location around the enterprise business network.
To improve the user experience and make it easier to use, UPM 6.0 adds a top navigation bar on the top of the interface. When users select a specific item in main menu in the left of the interface, the top navigation bar will display all tabs of selected item synchronously. Users can quickly switch between each tabs to facilitate operation.
Object analysis also provided in the new version, and its configuration is similar to that of custom metric monitoring. With custom analysis views, users can monitor and analyze relevant metrics of specified IPs or applications they care about.
Time sequence analysis for packet decoding is available in UPM 6.0. The optimization is a follow-up to online decoding feature which has been provided in v5.6. Users no longer need to download and analyze packets with expert analyzer or other tools.
The latest release of UPM features:
- Add alert setting in custom metric monitoring charts.
- Support template feature in custom metric monitoring.
- Add new components such as dashboard and top chart in custom metric monitoring.
- Add TCP conversation and UDP conversation in custom metric monitoring.
- Add SNMP in custom metric monitoring.
- Add object analysis feature bases on IP and application.
- Support time sequence in packet decoding.
- Add no traffic alarm for link, application, segment and IP.
- Add MAC address abnormal access alarm.
- Add TCP/UDP conversation multi-segment analysis.
- Support batch adding probes.
An evaluation version of UPM v6.0 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.0 with Packet Truncating
Chengdu, China, June 24, 2020 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.0. nChronos designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.
nChronos v6.0 optimizes packet truncating which to helps users to save server storage. The new Packet Truncating feature is for configuring rules based on application, protocol and VLAN. Besides, the new version added server information migration that is a way improve work efficiency.
The latest release of nChronos features:
- Packets can be truncated based on applications, protocols, VLAN/VPN tags.
- Abnormal access alarm supports MAC address.
- Console configurations can be migrated.
- TCP long connection can be identified.
- No-traffic alarm is added for links, network segments, applications, and IPs.
- Add version configuration for NetFlow interface configuration.
- Add ICMP packet loss Rate for link analysis.
- Add reset rate, response rate and no response rate for application analysis.
- Add transactions per second peak and transactions per second peak baseline for transaction analysis.
An evaluation version of nChronos v6.0 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Sends Qualified Masks to Customers and Partners to Help Fight COVID-19
Chengdu, China, April 8, 2020 - always pay attention to the health and safety of our customers and partners. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from early 2020, Colasoft has provided thousands of qualified disposable face masks to our customers and partners in South Korea, Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal to help them fight the coronavirus.
Colasoft is willing to respond to urgent needs of all the customers and partners and spare no effort to provide support and help. “We will continue to do our best to do more to fight the epidemic,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “We sincerely hope that all things we do, however small they are, will help our customers and partners.”
If you are a Colasoft customer or partner and need any help, please contact Colasoft at
Colasoft Recognized in New Gartner Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics
Chengdu, China, March 25, 2020 - , a visionary provider of network performance monitoring and diagnostics solutions, today announced that it has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the brandnew Gartner "Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics" report. Previously, Colasoft was named as a Visionary for two consecutive years when Gartner produced a Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. As the explanation by Gartner, a visionary understand where the market is going or have a vision for changing market rules.
“As a visionary in NPMD, we are pleased to see that Colasoft solution has been listed in the new report by Gartner again,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “Colasoft has invested in providing performance analysis as a service and expanding the use of its products across broader IT operations teams. In the near future, we intend to invest in an ML engine for analysis of performance metrics.”
The Colasoft NPMD solution consists of three components: , and . UPM is the visualization layer that delivers business-oriented performance views, network path analysis, and performance issue detection, all based on data collected by nChronos. nChronos provides packet capture with historical and real-time analysis of application-oriented performance metrics for every TCP conversation. Capsa Enterprise is a network analyzer that provides packet sniffing and capture when application decoding and deep domain analysis are required. A limited version of Capsa Enterprise, , is also available to download.
Gartner indicates the Strategic Planning Assumption to disclose the importance of NPMD solution, "By 2024, 50 percent of network operations teams will be required to rearchitect their network monitoring stack, due to the impact of hybrid networking, which will be a significant increase from 20 percent in 2019," wrote by Gartner analyst Josh Chessman.
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About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v13 with Merging of Network Profile and Analysis Profile
Chengdu, China, February 26, 2020 - , a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of Capsa Network Analyzer v13, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.
The new Capsa 13 merges all the settings of Network Profile and Analysis Profile to Analysis Settings. The change provides user more flexibility in analysis configurations when analyzing traffic. Besides, it provides a new feature to identify the names and types of the device corresponding to the specific IPs.
The latest release of Capsa features:
- Internet IP device identification feature is added.
- Replay analysis supports wireless packets decryption.
- Users can locate related conversations from the Diagnosis Details tab.
Capsa v13 is compatible with Windows 7/8/10 and Windows Server 2008/2012. to download a full functional trial for 30 days.
About Capsa
Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces Release of UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v5.6
Chengdu, China, December 16, 2019-, a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v5.6. UPM is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. It is designed to improve operation efficiency and capability of network troubleshooting, and provides analysis ability such as business-centric network grooming, real-time performance monitoring, and rapid issues location around the enterprise business network.
To avoid business disruption, data loss, economy and trust loss when a “disaster” occurs, disaster recovery design and regular drills are important for fintech firms. UPM 5.6 provides a backup monitor feature to monitor the switchover scenario for disaster recovery drill process. With the backup feature, users can get a visualized view of the real-time monitor and statistics for the switchover and business validation.
Meanwhile, UPM 5.6 optimized the custom metric monitor feature, which enables users to customize a metric monitor dashboard with any desired metrics.
Furthermore, with previous versions, users have to launch an Expert Analyzer from nChronos Console to decode packets, while with the version 5.6, UPM provides an online decoding feature, which allows users to get the decoding view by just some clicks.
“ “For enterprise customers, they do need a network performance analysis system like , but which is not enough, more and more users asked for a business-oriented solution which can comprehensively monitor and analyze network. So we release after nChronos.” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “And that is what nChronos and UPM deliver.”
The latest release of UPM features:
- Add Renter role to User Group.
- Renter link can be enabled in Link Configuration.
- Add view grouping function to Custom Monitor.
- Add text and picture components to Custom Monitor.
- Link Traffic Analysis supports displaying IP alias and MAC alias.
- Add storage configuration and monitoring based on time bucket.
- Add multidimensional table type of link chart to Report.
- Logo and Signature can be customized in Report.
- Support analyzing SNMP data.
- Advanced filter function is supported in Custom Monitor table component.
An evaluation version of UPM v5.6 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. Learn more at
Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System Achieves IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 Certification
Chengdu, China, Septebmer 6, 2019-, a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System was officially passed the IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 test at Beijing Internet Institute BII which is one of the member of IPv6 Ready Logo Committee (v6LC), and get the IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 certification issued by IPv6 Forum (Logo ID:02-C-001953). It indicates that the implementation of IPv6 core protocol of Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System has fully complied with the relevant standards of the IETF RFC, and its consistency and interoperability have been verified by authority.
About Colasoft nChronos
is an application centric, deep-dive network performance analysis system. It combines the nChronos Console with the nChronos Server to deliver the capability of 24x7 continuous packet capturing, unlimited data storage, efficient data mining and in depth traffic analysis solution. nChronos captures 100% of all data captured for real-time analysis as well as historical playback.
About IPv6 Ready Logo
The IPv6 Forum, a world-wide consortium, with a key focus to provide technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6, launched a single world-wide IPv6 Ready Logo Program (conformance and interoperability testing). The is a conformance and interoperability testing program intended to increase user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 is available now and ready to be used.
The IPv6 Ready Phase-2 (Gold) Logo will indicate that a product has successfully satisfied strong requirements stated by the IPv6 Logo Committee (v6LC).
Colasoft Announces Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v5.6
Chengdu, China, August 7, 2019-, a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.6. nChronos designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.
Customer requirements for usability of nChronos drove the demand for the new version. With nChronos v5.6, users can fast drill down and locate the data which they want to check, and analyze traffic in an individual window. The new version also provide sublink configuration with 7 types, and add new burst alarm type to improve the usability.
“Nowadays, the network not only supports the business, but also driving the business. Network administrators need to see, manage and act on the network,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “Obviously, they need a visible, fast, and easy to use NPMD solution. That is what nChronos delivering for enterprise customers.”
The latest release of nChronos features:
- Add custom analysis in new window.
- Physical address supports virtual interface configuration.
- Custom application analysis and application alarm for Netflow traffic.
- Add sublinks for VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS VPN, ISL VLAN and network segment.
- Add burst alarm type.
- Traffic alarms support setting metric key value.
- Add new metrics, including bps 95p peak, client IP quantity, slow connections and 0 window delay.
- Add 1-minute baseline for links and applications on two metrics, total conversations and new conversations.
An evaluation version of nChronos v5.6 is available for download at
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. Learn more at
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v12 with New Analysis Profile
Chengdu, China, July 23, 2019-, an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of Capsa Network Analyzer v12, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.
The highlight of Capsa 12 is to add a new analysis profile, Full Traffic Decoding, which is used for displaying the decoding field of a certain protocol. With the new analysis profile, users can get the correlative decoding field value, conversation statistics and packets information. It is convenient for users to view the protocol decoding field and related statistics.
And in the new version, Capsa 12 users the DPI filter to filter out network packets. Users can customize filter conditions now. Technically, all the protocol decoding fields can be set as the filter condition. Capsa also provides some default filter rules based on protocols in Packet Analysis Filters Settings and Packet Storage Filters Settings.
Besides, Capsa provides a new function to show window size and RTT value for each TCP conversation. It is convenient for users to locate performance issues based on TCP conversations.
“With the release of Capsa 12, Colasoft enhanced the function of packet filter. Users can define filter conditions in the analysis profile before starting a capture. Such improvements show that we are always user-oriented.” said Eddie Gao, CIO at Colasoft, “We are working to provide Capsa which has very friendly interface, high reliability and good application effect.”
Capsa v12 is compatible with Windows 7/8/10 and Windows Server 2008/2012. A trial is available for download at
About Capsa
Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics for Second Consecutive Year
Chengdu, China, February 12, 2019- today announced that it has been named a Visionary in 2019 for the second consecutive year, authored by Sanjit Ganguli and Ted Corbett, published on February 7, 2019.
“We are proud and pleased to see that our NPMD hardware and software solutions have been recognized once again as a visionary by Gartner,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “Colasoft places a strong focused on R&D, and more than one-third of our employees are committed to developing products which are related to NPMD solution. It ensures the stability of the output frequency of the new functions. We insists on deep technology in the field of network traffic analysis. Based on fast protocol decoding engine technology, the solution offering the ability of PB-level traffic data storage and second-level data retrieval, which ensure the best experience in business insights and help users solve network issues.”
As Gartner mentioned, Colasoft’s NPMD solution consists of three components: , and . UPM is the visualization layer that delivers business- and service-oriented performance views, network path analysis, and performance issue detection, all based on data collected by nChronos. nChronos provides packet capture with historical and real-time analysis of application-oriented performance metrics for every TCP conversation. Capsa is a network analyzer that provides packet sniffing and capture when application decoding and deep domain analysis are required. A limited version of Capsa, Capsa Free, is also available to download.
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Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v11.1 with Enhanced Usability
April 25, 2018- Colasoft Co., Ltd , an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of Capsa Network Analyzer v11.1, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.
Capsa v11.1 has added support for replaying specific packets according to users’ requirements. With the new version, users now can select specific packets to replay according to their requirements. For example, if users add three packets to the Replay window, but only want to replay the first two packets, they just need to check the box in front of packets and Capsa will only replay the selected packets.
Besides, Packet Storage Filter is added to Capsa v11.1 for storing particular packets. In previous versions, Capsa storages all the packets that are captured by default. With Capsa v11.1, if users enable Packet Storage Filters, they can only save those packets they are interested. If users only want to save the packets of ICMP protocol for replaying, they just need to enable this function to save the ICMP packets. Somehow, using Packet storage filters can save the storage space of local disk.
In addition, Capsa v11.1 has added support to export and import advanced display filters. If users reinstall Capsa on a new machine or update it to a new version, there is no need to reconfigure Advanced Display Filters manually, they can simply export Advanced Display Filters first and then import it to the newly installed Capsa.
“Powerful but easy-to-use are central to our mission of providing the most secure, reliable, and user-friendly network analyzer available on the market. With the release of version 11.1, the usability of Capsa network analyzer has been further enhanced”, said Brian Young, Vice President at Colasoft, “Colasoft Capsa now offers the Network Engineer one of the most robust Bandwidth and Packet Analysis tools available.”
Capsa v11.1 is compatible with Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. A free trial is available for download at
About Capsa
Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces the Release of nChronos v5.4
Chengdu, China, April 9, 2018- Colasoft Co., Ltd , an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, , today announced the release of a new version of its flagship product nChronos v5.4. nChronos combines the nChronos Console with the nChronos Server to deliver the capability of 24x7 continuous packet capturing, unlimited data storage, efficient data mining and in depth traffic analysis solution.
nChronos v5.4 has added full support for VoIP analysis, assisting users in troubleshooting VoIP networks. The new VoIP view includes Summary, VoIP Conversation, VoIP Endpoint, VoIP Endpoint Conversation, Network Segment, Segment- Segment and VoIP Alarms. With metrics such as conversation delay, MOS, jitter, packet loss rate, Colasoft users are able to visualize their VoIP data for troubleshooting.
In addition to VoIP, nChronos v5.4 supports DNS transaction analysis. Colasoft users now can analyze request, responses, success rate, request rate, processing time and transmission time of DNS transactions.
nChronos v5.4 has also added support for ICMP conversation delay analysis, . In IP address, IP conversation, network segment, segment-segment, VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS VPN, DSCP tabs, users can view ICMP response time, ICMP packets loss rate and etc.
“With the addition of VoIP analysis, DNS transaction analysis, and ICMP conversation analysis, nChronos now provides users with more aspects of deep network analysis”, said Eddie Gao, CIO at Colasoft, “We will keep on enhancing nChronos and provide users with great network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions.”
The evaluation version of nChronos v5.4 is now available on the Colasoft website
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies.
Colasoft is well-known for its industry-leading technology and professional service and is deeply committed to becoming a key player in the global NPMD industry. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Partners With Demsistem to Resell NPMD solutions in Turkey
The partnership enables Demsistem to offer Colasoft’s network performance and diagnostics solutions to Turkish organizations to enable them to monitor, troubleshoot and analyze their wired and wireless networks.
“Demsistem is delighted to be distributing Colasoft's strong business centric network performance monitoring and diagnostics solutions,” said Murat Nadastepe, CEO of Demsistem. “I believes this agreement is an exciting opportunity for our Turkish customers to troubleshoot, analyze and monitor their highly dynamic and complex network environment by using Colasoft's quality and reliable nChronos and UPM products in a cost effective manner.”
“Colasoft has established strategic partnerships with over 30 companies in Europe, America and Asia and we value every partner and the opportunities it brings to expand co-operation with various organizations in a wide range of industries, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy," said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “We are very excited to work with Demsistem to help us further expand our customer base Turkey and help Turkish enterprises improve their network performance analysis and management.”
Colasoft Named as a Visionary in Gartner MQ for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics
A Magic Quadrant provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players, and Challengers.(*)
This is the first time Colasoft NPMD products has been evaluated by Gartner, and we could not be more proud to be positioned in the Visionaries quadrant.
Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions since 2001. Over the past 17 years, Colasoft has developed new and enhanced products to meet the evolving customer needs. Its NPMD solution includes the following products and features:
Colasoft UPM-Focus on business-oriented network performance management. It is capable of monitoring service quality of all respects of a business network and quickly detecting and pinpointing problems affecting performance and stability of key business.
nChronos-Captures 100% of all data captured for real-time analysis as well as historical playback. It deliver the capability of 24x7 continuous packet capturing, unlimited data storage, efficient data mining and in depth traffic analysis.
Capsa- a portable network performance analysis and diagnostics tool, performs real-time packet capturing capability, advanced protocol analysis, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosis.
To be named in Gartner MQ is a good beginning of 2018 for us. Colasoft will continue to work hard on network performance and diagnostics solution development to bring new possibilities.
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Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Colasoft Announces the Release of Capsa Network Analyzer 11
Chengdu, China, February 12, 2018- Colasoft Co., Ltd , an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of its latest Capsa Network Analyzer, version 11, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.
Capsa 11 has added support for IPv6 packet analysis, including endpoint analysis and conversation analysis based on IPv6 protocol. In the Packet view, if users want to see only IPv6 packets, the Advanced Display Filter can be set to achieve it. Colasoft users can see the information of IPv6 packets in the Packet, IP Endpoint and IP Conversation views.
Besides, Capsa 11 is able to extract and fully reconstruct the files transmitted over FTP, TFTP, and HTTP, as well as SSL certificates. The new version can extract data from captured packets to reconstruct them to corresponding files. SSL Certificate Reconstruction function is to reconstruct the certificates transmitted over the SSL protocol, such as HTTPS, SMTP/SSL.
In addition to IPv6 and File Reconstruction, Capsa 11 has added support to RTP configuration to reconstruct the audio and video in RTP packets without signaling. A Free Trial version is available for download at
“With the release of Capsa 11, Colasoft has met the increasing customer demand in Ipv6 packet analysis and file reconstruction function”, said Brian Young, Vice President at Colasoft, “Colasoft Capsa now offers the Network Engineer one of the most robust Bandwidth and Packet Analysis tools available.”
Capsa 11 is compatible with Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. A free trial is available for download at
About Capsa
Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.
About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Standard 10.0
Chengdu, China, November 28, 2017-Colasoft Co., Ltd, an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of Capsa Standard 10.0, a special edition of Capsa designed for Ethernet network monitoring, troubleshooting and analyzing.
Capsa Standard captures 100% of network traffic transmitted over a local host and local network, conducts in-depth network traffic analyzing, and provides statistics and diagnosis data in a simple-straight and graphical style so that users can get what they want with less clicks.
“Capsa Standard is an easy-to-use network tool which help network administrators troubleshoot network problems, pinpoint network bottlenecks and ensure a more efficient and secure network”, said Jane Hu, Marketing Director at Colasoft, “We design this special edition of Capsa for small and budget-limited business, and we believe it will serve as the most cost-effective network analyzer with the price of only $295”.
Top Capabilities of Capsa Standard 10.0:
- Capture and save data transmitted over local networks and conduct both real-time and post-event analysis
- Identify and analyze 1040 protocols and sub-protocols, as well as network applications based on the protocols
- Monitors network bandwidth and usage through data packet capture of network transmissions
- View network statistics at a single glance, allowing easy capture & interpretation of network utilization
- Map out IP & MAC address details, including the traffic of each host on the network
Capsa Standard 10.0 runs on Win10/Win8/Win7/Vista/2008. A free trial is available for download at
Colasoft Announces the Release of nChronos v5.3
Chengdu, China, October 24, 2017-Colasoft Co., Ltd, an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of nChronos v5.3. The new release not only provides NetFlow analysis, but also agent analysis, together with other new functionalities and improvements, nChronos makes network troubleshooting and analysis an easier task for IT management.
Colasoft NPMD (Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics) solutions are based on packet sniffing technology. nChronos now supports NetFlow Analysis to collect network traffic information, including summary statistics, network segments, applications, IP conversations, IP type of service information, etc. The same as packet-based network links, customization of network segments, applications, alarms and reports are still supported for NetFlow links, which help users monitor and analyze network anomalies more conveniently.
Besides, Agent Analysis which realizes cloud-based application performance monitoring and analysis is provided. nChronos now supports collecting network traffic from virtual environment and cloud platform. Users can install Agents in virtual environment and forwards the traffic of the virtual environment to nChronos Server for analysis. An Agent link is provided to make filter rules, define network segments, and customize applications and alarms.
Moreover, a Server Status page is provided in nChronos v5.3 which makes it easy for users to view the server status, including CPU, memory and storage usage.
“We continue to provide an increase in value with additional functionality without sacrificing our easy to use interface. With the addition of NetFlow analysis and Agent analysi, as well as the improved multi-segment analysis function, nChronos now automates the previously tedious process of troubleshooting distributed network issues, with greater efficiency and ease.”, said Eddie Gao, CIO at Colasoft”.
The evaluation version of nChronos 5.3 is available, click here for more information
Colasoft Announces Update to Capsa v10.0
July 26, 2017 – Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the release of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v10.0 which comes with significant improvements of VoIP Analysis and TCP Conversation Analysis.
With the improvements of this new version, Capsa v10.0 supports SIP and H.323 protocols, which provides the ability to play back voice and video files and display VoIP call statistics. To show more detailed VoIP statistics, new VoIP charts, VoIP report modules, and VoIP diagnosis events are added to this new version.
TCP Conversation view adds a column Interaction Diagram, which displays the packets interaction status for each TCP conversation. With the new version, TCP flow analysis optimizes the algorism for TCP transactions and adds new metrics for TCP transactions, which facilitate the analysis of TCP transactions.
New Features:
- An Interaction Diagram column and a Transport Layer Max ACK Time column are added for TCP Conversation view.
- A Payload column is added for TCP Conversation view and Packet view.
- Audio and video can be played for SIP VoIP calls based on following codecs: G.711/a, g.711/u, GSM, BV32, Speex, PCM, H.264 (unencrypted), H.263(unencrypted), Mp4v-es.
- Audio and video can be played for H.323 VoIP calls based on following codecs: G.711/a, g.711/u, GSM, H.264(unencrypted), H.263 (unencrypted).
Improvements:
- VoIP analysis is improved to support both SIP and H.323 protocol.
- MAC address library and IP address library have been updated.
- The calculation for TCP conversation metrics has been updated.
- Average bps, average utilization, and average pps are added for traffic statistics.
- Packet timestamp supports nanosecond, and some statistics are accurate to nanosecond.
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v10.0 is available for download at
Colasoft Joins the Cisco Solution Partner Program
Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network performance analysis and management solutions, announced today that it has joined the Cisco® Solution Partner Program as a Solution Partner. As a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program, Colasoft is able to quickly create and deploy solutions in NPMD industry.
Colasoft nChronos, a retrospective network performance analysis system, is compatible with Cisco Switches and will collect network packets via the SPAN function of Cisco switches.
The Cisco Solution Partner Program, part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem, unites Cisco with third-party independent hardware and software vendors to deliver integrated solutions to joint customers. As a Solution Partner, Colasoft will deliver a complementary network performance analysis solution to collaborate with Cisco to meet the needs of customers in NPMD industry.
Colasoft Exhibited at eGISEC FAIR 2017
March, 2017 – Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network performance analysis and management solutions, exhibited at eGISEC FAIR 2017 from March 15 to March 17 in Seoul, South Korea.
As the first time participating in the eGISEC FAIR, Colasoft showcased the network performance analysis solution (Colasoft nChronos) and Unified Performance Management Solution (Colasoft UPM) to display the customized network and application performance management solutions.


Colasoft UPM is a business-oriented unified performance management solution. It is capable of monitoring service quality of all respects of a business network and quickly detecting and pinpointing problems affecting performance and stability of key business.
This is the first time for Colasoft to participate in the eGISEC FAIR and visitors spoke highly of the products which Colasoft showcased.
About eGISEC FAIR
eGISEC FAIR is the largest security exhibition in South Korea. It is hosted by the Ministry of Safety and Public Administration, and more than 30,000 people concerned from public organization and security business circles view this exhibition every year.
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v9.2
January 19, 2017 – Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the availability of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v9.2, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and protocol decoding.
Application analysis counts a lot in securing enterprise network. Capsa v9.2 brings an application analysis function. More than 1,800 built-in applications are provided, including the popular applications as Amazon, Email, Facebook, Google, Web, Youtube, etc. Besides the built-in applications, users can customize applications for private network services. Custom applications can be defined based on IP address, port number, protocol, packet pattern, and combinations thereof. With application analysis function, network administrators will have a better understanding and control of network traffic, which makes network monitoring and troubleshooting easier.
HTTPS is a protocol for secure communication over network, which is widely used on the Internet. With this safer protocol, it becomes more complicated to analyze the traffic today. And considering this circumstance, Capsa v9.2 adds HTTPS decryption capability to enable users to decrypt the HTTPS message with the right configuration of key file.
Moreover, Capsa v9.2 adds more than 200 new protocols, which enhance protocol recognition capability. And users could select a certain medium type to capture or replay the packets. Also, a Dup ACK mark and a Retransmission mark are added to the packet decoding window to facilitate protocol decoding.
"Colasoft R&D department involves optimizing Capsa to satisfy users’ needs of network analysis.” said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft, “Also, we add new features to Capsa v9.2 to meet with the increasingly complex network environment, in order to provide a functional tool for our users.”
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v9.2 is available for download at
Colasoft Announces Release of nChronos v5.2
October 19, 2016 - Colasoft, an innovative provider of powerful and affordable network analysis and application performance analysis solutions, today announced the release of its flagship product Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.2. nChronos v5.2 comes with new types of alarms and adds TCP transaction analysis.
nChronos v5.2 provides a baseline analysis feature. Choose a baseline type, and then the baseline will be generated and displayed automatically. Furthermore, users can configure baseline alarms by setting a deviation threshold from the baseline. Also provided are whitelist and blacklist alarms, which allow users to customize whitelist and blacklist. Baseline analysis, together with blacklist and white alarms, makes it easy for network administrators to find out abnormal network traffic and abnormal network accesses.
nChronos earlier versions provide HTTP transaction analysis. With nChronos v5.2, TCP-based transaction analysis is available. Users can configure TCP transactions based on application layer protocol fields according to actual network applications. nChronos is capable of monitoring transaction performance and recording transaction content, which provides reference value for business analysis and application performance analysis.
“Colasoft focuses on helping IT technicians solve problems efficiently.”said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft,“By adding new alarms, users will cost less time to find abnormal behaviors. Also, we hope users would find the benefit of the new function, TCP transaction analysis.”
An evaluation version of nChronos v5.2 is available for download at nChronos
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v9.1
September 6, 2016 – Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the availability of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v9.1, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and protocol decoding. In the new version, users could decode packets as a specified protocol and filter the packets according to a scheduled time range. Besides new features, Capsa v9.1 also comes with some improvements to optimize user experience.
Capsa v9.1 provides a Conversation Filter, which allows users to customize conversation filter rules. Only conversations matching the rules can be displayed on the conversation views, including MAC/IP/TCP/UDP conversations. In the version 9.1, users could decode the packets as a specified protocol and filter the packets according to a scheduled time range. And it supports batch address/port input for advanced capture filter, so users do not need to input them one by one anymore.
Following are the major features and improvements in Capsa v9.1:
- Conversation filter is provided to define filter rules for MAC/IP/TCP/UDP conversations.
- Packets can be decoded as specified protocol.
- Packets can be filtered based on time rule.
- Enable batch address/port input for advanced capture filter.
- A Time Sequence tab is added for DNS-based conversation.
- The protocol PPP for POS can be recognized and decoded.
- Name table file supports .csv format.
- An option is added to enable/disable the automatic loading of packet files replayed last time.
"We major added Conversation Filter in Capsa v9.1 which improves network analysis efficiency for users" said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft, “Colasoft involves in developing user-friendly network products for IT users, news features and improvements in Capsa v9.1 helps users find network problems more quickly.”
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v9.1 is available for download at capsa
Colasoft Announces Release of UPM v5.1
August 23, 2016– Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, announces the release of a new version of Colasoft UPM today. With the release of Colasoft UPM V5.1, just by a glance, users can know network running status, business running status and whether there are alarms triggered. In addition to business monitor and analysis, UPM 5.1 provides direct traffic monitor and analysis, and automatic network performance analysis. Besides new features, this release brings a lot of improvements, which will help users a lot on both network performance analysis and application performance analysis.
This new version of Colasoft UPM comes with a New Home Page, which could display the overall monitor status in real-time.Also, UPM Center provides a Probe Traffic Monitor page to display traffic trend charts for each probe. And a Probe Traffic Analysis page is added to display probe traffic, traffic comparison analysis and traffic trend analysis. With UPM 5.1, users can compare the network traffic with history traffic and forecast the future traffic, which helps users get a better control of network. Meanwhile, UPM adds the Business Global and Group Performance Monitor function, so that users can quickly find abnormal business, as well as abnormal application and host nodes. Besides optimized user interface, many new functions and improvements are involved in this release to provide better business and network monitor and analysis.
Top 10 New Features and Improvements:
- A Home Page is added to display the overall monitor status in real-time.
- A Network Performance Monitor page is added to customize network communication paths and monitor the paths in real-time.
- Network performance alarm is provided to automatically evaluate network performance.
- A Probe Traffic Monitor page is added to monitor all probes’ traffic in real-time.
- A Business Global Performance Monitor page is added to monitor all business nodes in real-time.
- Probe traffic report is provided and can be downloaded.
- Probes can be aggregated to work as one probe.
- Network segments can be automatically defined based on the traffic captured by frontend.
- Business performance analysis is optimized with display, business logic diagram and group function.
- Product user interface is optimized.
“In the fast growing network technology, we must involve in developing products and solutions facing to business network area.” said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft, “Colasoft UPM is what this area needs, and in this new version we have made a big improvement of UPM which could provide users a new experience in business network management.”
Learn more about Colasoft UPM at upm
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v9.0
June 21, 2016 – Colasoft, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the availability of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v9.0, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and intrusion detection. Together with the new release of Capsa, Colasoft MAC Scanner, Ping Tool, Packet Player and Packet Builder are all enhanced and released to the public.
Network traffic could be analyzed based on local processes in Capsa v9.0. The new release provides a Process View and a Process Explorer, with which users could easily find the network conversations for a local process, listing process name, process ID and bytes. By only a few clicks, packets data for process name and process ID will be listed immediately.
Following are the major improvements:
- bps calculation is optimized so that the bps of the root node is the sum of those of sub-nodes.
- The number of nodes displayed on the Node Explorer is not limited anymore.
- View display is optimized so that the views display smoothly upon switching on different views when there is large volume of data on the view.
- Conversation data display is optimized and the Data Flow tab displays data more quickly.
- IP address geographical information library is updated for Colasoft Ping Tool.
- User interface display is optimized for Colasoft Ping Tool.
- MAC address manufacturer information is updated for Colasoft MAC Scanner.
"The process analysis feature provides a Process view showing network traffic for local processes, and related protocols, TCP conversations and UDP conversations." said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft, “This feature will help IT people a lot on network troubleshooting, especially on finding Trojan virus.”
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v9.0 is available for download at Capsa
Colasoft Announces Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.1
April 26, 2016 - Colasoft (www.colasoft.com), an innovative provider of powerful and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the release of its flagship product Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.1. With the packets of user-defined applications can be stored with truncated length now, the storage and retrieval performance are greatly improved. In addition, HTTP packets reconstruction and packets replay link are now available in nChronos 5.1, allowing network managers to easily monitor network activities and replay packets for abnormality diagnosis.
People have attached more and more importance to the security of the web information. While as the central protocol of web’s application layer, HTTP forms the foundation of it. Colasoft nChronos 5.1 provides an HTTP packets reconstruction feature, which can show which web pages that an endpoint visits. If you select an IP address, nChronos can reconstruct the web pages that it visits. You can see how the page looked exactly. By exactly recording who have visited where and when, it is particularly suitable for executives to supervise the employees' web browsing at work, and record the time and web sites they visited for future reference.
Sometimes we need to see the proof details to define the root cause when there is abnormality on the network, especially when we need to define the problem is related to network or to application. With nChronos 5.1, you can view the packet details very quickly, without opening the complete Expert analyzer. Just select the interested traffic and click "Decode Packets", you can load Expert Analyzer to decode packets down to protocol fields.
Other new features in nChronos v5.1 you will find:
- IP segment based virtual interfaces support.
- Truncated packets can be analyzed with original length.
- DPDK support.
- System monitor information can be sent as syslog.
- VXLan protocol support.
- A VXLan statistical view is provided.
- nChronos service can be restarted on nChronos Server web page.
“Some most requested features return in nChronos v5.1,” said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft, “Previously, we took each change separately and drilled down to determine why it's beneficial. We are always on the way to be better.”
Colasoft CTO, Eddie Gao
An evaluation version of nChronos 5.1 is available for download at nChronos
Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v8.3 is Available Now!
We are very pleased today to announce that a new version of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and intrusion detection, is now available.
Capsa Network Analyzer v8.3 comes with the following improvements and fixed bugs:
- The Windows 10 operating system logs off from time to time when starting Capsa.
- Added name table cannot be auto-saved.
- Packet files with capitalized extension cannot be replayed.
- Log View settings in Analysis Profile cannot be auto-saved.
- For wireless analysis, no packets are shown on the Packet view when a MAC address is selected in the Node Explorer.
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v8.3 is available for download at:Capsa
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v8.2
February 23, 2016 – Colasoft LLC, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the availability of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v8.2, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and intrusion detection. The data flow display and protocols recognition are optimized in Capsa Network Analyzer 8.2.
Capsa v8.2 is capable of analyzing the traffic of wireless AP with 2 channels. Users can choose up to 2 wireless channels to analyze the total traffic which greatly enhances the accuracy of wireless traffic analysis. Hex display of decoded data is added in Data Flow sub-view in TCP/UDP Conversation view. Users can switch the display format between hex and text in Capsa v8.2.
Besides the optimizations of Data Flow sub-view in TCP/UDP Conversation view, with the continuous improvement of CSTRE (Colasoft Traffic Recognition Engine), Capsa 8.2 is capable of recognizing up to 1546 protocols and sub-protocols, which covers most of the mainstream protocols.
“We have also enhanced the interface of Capsa which improves user experience”, said Brian K. Smith, Vice President at Colasoft LLC, “the release of Capsa v8.2 provides a more comprehensive network analyze result to our customers.”
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v8.2 is available for download at: Capsa
Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v8.1
December 15, 2015– Colasoft LLC, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the availability of Colasoft Capsa Network Analyzer v8.1, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and intrusion detection. Capsa v8.1 makes it efficient for users to monitor and analyze network with optimized system architecture and improved analysis performance.
The analysis architecture is improved which greatly enhance the performance of Capsa network analyzer. The 64 bit installation makes it possible for customers to increase their buffer size at a large range.
Besides, Capsa v8.1 now supports automatic online upgrade, customers are able to upgrade to the newest version of Capsa network analyzer with just a few mouse clicks.
Moreover, the adding of Conversation Filter saves much time for network administrators to troubleshoot and pinpoint the problem.
“We are committed to providing our customers with the most advanced and user-friendly platform for network monitoring and analyzing”, said Brian K. Smith, Vice President at Colasoft LLC, “We have made great effort to develop Capsa v8.1 which aims to help make network administration work simpler and more efficient.”
A free trial of Capsa network analyzer v8.1 is available for download at:
Colasoft Launched Unified Performance Management (UPM) Platform
UPM v4.1 is capable of monitoring service quality of all aspects of a business network, quickly detecting and pinpointing problems affecting performance and stability of key business segments.
December 8th, 2015 - Colasoft LLC, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis solutions, announces the release of a new business-oriented network performance management solution today. This new technology, known as Colasoft Unified Performance Management (UPM), partners best with our existing product, Colasoft nChronos. It collects all analysis data from nChronos, summarizes the data and displays the final results onto the dashboard.
Colasoft UPM is able to Visualize Business Running Status which enhances network management by providing a more business-oriented network management compared to most physical-oriented network management. This enables users to make proactive network analysis decisions based on each business system monitored. Operations staff have the capability to know the running quality of every single business segment at any time by displayed graphs and charts of the running status of business elements.
With the Quick Analysis of Business Performance Problem function, Colasoft UPM graphically displays the running status of all the applications which form a business network. With UPM graphs, users can view the application services, hosts and network paths supporting business systems. Colasoft UPM also supports graphic displays of key performance indexes and working status of all business elements, to help users quickly locate the root cause of the business system anomaly.
“In the fast growing network technology area, the combination of network and business systems are now intertwined.” said Brian K. Smith, Vice President of Colasoft LLC, “Today’s complex, hybrid networks require a more sophisticated technology to manage business networks. Colasoft UPM provides the solution that allows industry to deal with a rapidly growing network problem.”
About UPM
Colasoft Unified Performance Management (UPM) platform is a business-oriented network performance management solution. It is capable of monitoring service quality for all aspects of a business network and quickly detecting and pinpointing problems affecting performance and stability within key business segments. UPM will maximize business network management efficiency and network fault troubleshooting capability by providing business-centered network analysis supporting environment review, real-time performance monitoring and the quick detection of network faults. Colasoft UPM collects all real-time analysis data from Colasoft nChronos which is deployed across each network node providing operations staff with vivid and graphic views of every node in the business network.
Colasoft Announced Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.0
Tulsa, OK - December 1, 2015 - Colasoft LLC , an innovative provider of powerful and affordable network analysis solutions, today announced the release of its flagship product Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.0. The OS architecture is greatly optimized in this version which helps make network monitoring and analysis much more convenient and efficient than ever before. This release comes with groundbreaking functional design and analysis processing technology, such as twin-engine application protocol analysis and the new customizable analysis views.
nChronos v5.0 provides high-performance network analysis for Cloud-Computing Datacenters by supporting 10 Gbps+ linear analysis with a new system architecture and processing engine, nanosecond-level analysis of packets, multi-link analysis technology and flexible storage capacity. It’s the perfect solution for high performance Cloud-Computing Datacenters which are in need of higher precision analysis.
This new version provides an even greater user experience with many functionality improvements. Below are some of the highlights for nChronos v5.0:
- Added Statistics between Segments tab in the Link Analysis view.
- Supports customized field in the Reports view.
- Advanced Filter in the Link Analysis view.
- Supports quick report generation in the Link Analysis view.
- Graphs can be displayed and exported in the Link Analysis view.
- Supports View Management. Users can choose to display or hide the views as well as set displaying orders.
“For customers with demanding requirements for the high availability and operation of their data centers, nChronos is an ideal choice”, said Brandon Lewis, Director of Customer Services at Colasoft, “With nChronos, every single packet that goes through a user’s network is captured, recorded and able to be reviewed at any time.”
Colasoft Announces the Release of Capsa Network Analyzer 8.0
June 16, 2015– Colasoft LLC, a leading provider of innovative and affordable network analysis software solutions, today announced the release of the latest version of Capsa network analyzer, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and intrusion detection. Capsa Network Analyzer 8.0 is based on the Third-generation Colasoft Traffic Recognition Engine (CSTRE), which substantially improved the accuracy and efficiency of protocol & application recognition.
Two Expert Diagnosis Events are added to Capsa 8.0, they are Physical Loop Diagnosis and Routing Loop Diagnosis. Capsa 8.0 makes it very easy for network administrators to locate network loop anomaly without looking into packet details. By providing possible reasons and solutions to each Diagnosis Event, it helps network administrators to quickly pinpoint and solve complicated network problems.
Another prominent feature is that packets can be colorized in Conversation Views, including Physical Conversation View, IP Conversation View, TCP Conversation View and UDP Conversation View. The relevance between a session and a packet is enhanced by colorizing packets which greatly improves performance analysis efficiency.
“In addition to concentrated development of new features, we also take great efforts to enhance user experience”, said Brian K. Smith, Vice President at Colasoft LLC, “Upon requests of many users, now Capsa 8.0 can easily be launched by command line. Packet timestamp shift function is added and host names can be resolved actively. Capsa 8.0 now offers the Network Engineer one of the most robust Bandwidth and Packet Analysis tools available”.
Capsa 8.0 is compatible with Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8. A free trial is available for download at:
About CapsaCapsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities. About Colasoft
Since 2001, Colasoft, an Oklahoma Company, has been an innovative provider of all-in -one and easy - to - use software solutions for users to monitor network activities, analyze network performance, enhance network security, and troubleshoot network problems.Currently, more than 5,000 customers in over 90 countries trust the company's flagship product, Capsa Packet Sniffer, as their network monitoring and troubleshooting solution. Please visit http://www.colasoft.com for more information.