You&#x27;re right. RTM, or rather, its internal flow assembling component RTS can be extended with plugins in order to extract and append more information for a flow. For example there are plugins for:<p>* regex matching
* tcp state machine following
* http
* dns
* bgp
* smtp
* icmp
* pcap splitting by flows
* ...<p>Using them will have an impact on performance, which is why there are no numbers regarding speed on this page. It&#x27;s always a fit between: what one can see and what one wants to see. It&#x27;s beeing sold as a privacy feature ;). Nevertheless a security expert has to configure the software so that it fits the environment.<p>In contrast to other projects, the general assumption is that RTM is not the &#x27;one solution you implement and you&#x27;re secure&#x27; but rather a platform on which you can build your security upon.<p>Sorry for the generic answer: I don&#x27;t know Silk&#x2F;Flowbat well enough in order to provide a in depth comparison.