Traffice Flow

RouterOS General
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Hi

I even don’t know how to ask the question
I’m using Mikrotik CHR 6.45.5. I want to export firewall logs and Traffic Flow outside of Mikrotik. Firewall logs are working great. I have problem with Traffic Flow. When I’m exporting logs from Traffic Flow I’m getting mess like this:

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I was trying to export logs to Sumo Logic and NetCat - the same result.

I was trying to use Trafic Flow version 1,5, 9 and IPFix - logs looks like exactly the same.
I’m using configuration from here: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Traffic_Flow.
Can somebody suggest me what I’m doing wrong or what i’s missing?

Regards
Krzysztof

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TrafficFlow does not produce anything human-readable. You need a separate specialized software, usually called NetFlow Collector or NetFlow Analyzer, to collect, aggregate and display traffic flow data.

As a much simpler alternative, you can also consider using /ip accounting.