Announcing InMon Traffic Sentinel 8.11
August 2026: InMon Traffic Sentinel 8.11 is now available for download. This is a free upgrade for customers who have purchased annual maintenance.
Previous release: 8.9.18
New features include:
- New time navigation buttons
- Breakthrough performance boost
- New MPLS decodes
- Port to Linux on ARM (aarch64) hardware
- Updated MAC, ASN and country lookups, and Apache Tomcat version.
- For additional bugfix, performance and stability improvements, see Release Notes on customer portal.
New time navigation buttons
When adjusting the time window for views such as Traffic>TopN two new buttons make it much easier to find what you are looking for. These "back" (<) and "forward" (>) arrow buttons will step the chart backward or forward in time by the interval that is currently displayed. So for example to search back for a particular surge in traffic you remember seeing a day or two ago, you might set the chart interval to 12 hours and then simply click the "back" button until it appears.
Breakthrough performance boost
Sentinel 8.11 includes new algorithms that have been in development for some time, deliverying a sharp increase in the responsiveness of the queries across all processor architectures and core counts. Sometimes more than 5x faster than before. Especially when queries run from disk cache or solid-state disk. Were you thinking of extending the scope of the monitoring to include more devices? This is the time!
New MPLS decodes
In previous Sentinel versions the packet header decoder would stop on encountering some MPLS encapsulation variants, so that the "sourceaddress" field would not pick up the higher layer IP or IP6 addresses. Now the decoder recognizes the "Pseudowire" header, allows nested layer-2 encapsulations and picks up the first layer-3 addresses as expected.
Port to Linux on ARM (aarch64) hardware
Most servers run on the x86_64 processor family, but the aarch64 processor has features that make it well suited to this workload, so if you have a server running ubuntu Linux on aarch64 then please ask for this port. It is available on request.