Community Edition

FastNetMon - A high performance DDoS detector / sensor built on top of multiple packet capture engines: NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, AF_PACKET (port mirror).

What do we do?

We detect hosts in the deployed network sending or receiving large volumes of traffic, packets/bytes/flows per second and perform a configurable action to handle that event. These configurable actions include notifying you, calling script or making BGP announces.

Flow is one or more ICMP, UDP, or TCP packets which can be identified via their unique src IP, dst IP, src port, dst port, and protocol fields.

Project

🌏️ Official site
⭐️ FastNetMon Advanced, Commercial Edition
🌟️ FastNetMon Advanced, free one month trial
📜️ FastNetMon Advanced and Community difference table
📘️ Detailed reference
🔏️ Privacy policy

Supported packet capture engines

• NetFlow v5, v9, v9 Lite
• IPFIX
• v5
• PCAP
• AF_PACKET (recommended)
• AF_XDP (XDP based capture)
• Netmap (deprecated, stil supported only for FreeBSD)
• PF_RING / PF_RING ZC (deprecated, available only for CentOS 6 in 1.2.0)

You can check out the comparison table for all available packet capture engines.

Official support groups:

• Mailing list
• Slack
• IRC: #fastnetmon at irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS) web client
• Telegram: fastnetmon
• Discord: fastnetmon

Follow us at social media:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Facebook

Complete integration with the following vendors

• Juniper integration
• A10 Networks Thunder TPS Appliance integration
• MikroTik RouterOS

Features

• Detects DoS/DDoS in as little as 1-2 seconds
• Scales up to terabits on single server (sFlow, Netflow, IPFIX) or to 40G + in mirror mode
• Trigger block/notify script if an IP exceeds defined thresholds for packets/bytes/flows per second
• Complete support for most popular attack types
• Thresholds can be configured per-subnet basis with the hostgroups feature
• Email notifications about detected attack
• Complete IPv6 support
• Prometheus support: system metrics and total traffic counters
• Flow and packet export to Kafka in JSON and Protobuf format
• Announce blocked IPs via BGP to routers with ExaBGP or GoBGP (recommended)
• Full integration with InfluxDB and Graphite
• API
• Redis integration
• MongoDB integration
• Prometheus support
• VLAN untagging in mirror and sFlow modes
• Capture attack fingerprints in PCAP format

Running FastNetMon

Hardware requirements

• At least 1 GB of RAM

Installation

• Linux (Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu), install instructions
• VyOS
• FreeBSD: official port.

Router integration instructions

• Juniper MX Routers

Screenshots

Example deployment scheme

Upstream versions in different distributions