Deploy A Honeypot!

Getting Started

First you should determine where you want to install and run your honeypot. Any Internet facing environment, options include:

• Home network
• Virtual Private Server (VPS) Providers:
  • Digital Ocean (use this referal link for a $10 credit)
  • Vultr (referal link)
  • Linode (referal link)
  • Scaleway (https://www.scaleway.com)
  • Upcloud (referal link)
• Business Network
• Cloud environment, e.g. AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Alibaba, etc.

Next, install the HoneyDB Agent:

• HoneyDB Agent (Download) - Run the binary or install with a Linux package manager. There are packages for Amazon Linux, CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian on x86_64. You can also run the agent on your Raspberry Pi (Raspbian armv6l and armv7l). Windows and OSX is supported as well.

Finally, to send honeypot data to HoneyDB you'll need to configure your honeypot with your HoneyDB API ID key and HoneyDB Agent Sensor API key. To obtain these keys you need to sign-in here.

One-Click Deployment Options

Getting Data

Once you have the HoneyDB Agent up and running, you can use the HoneyDB CLI tool to download your honeypot data. See more details about the API here. Another good tool to work with the API is Postman.