Tools to deploy honeypots

The problem, in plain words: “I need a honeypot to detect, monitor, and analyze unauthorized access attempts on my network.”

Knock-Knock fits best, with 3 more that fit too.

You need a deployable honeypot solution that detects intrusions, provides continuous monitoring/alerting, and supplies rich logs for forensic analysis.

Updated August 2026.

What fits

Knock-Knockstrong · 88

Knock-Knock is a live, multi-protocol honeypot with an animated dashboard covering SSH, Telnet, FTP, RDP, SMB, HTTP and more, designed to detect and visualize intrusion attempts across common network services—directly addressing detection, monitoring, and attacker telemetry needs.

Best for: Teams wanting an all-in-one, visual multi-protocol honeypot that shows live attack activity across many services.

HoneyWirestrong · 86

HoneyWire is an open-source deception platform that quickly turns Linux hosts into enterprise-grade canaries, providing lightweight, self-hosted honeypot capability for early, high-signal intrusion detection and canary-based telemetry suitable for continuous monitoring and alerts.

Best for: Security teams seeking a self-hosted, low-cost deception/canary approach they can deploy across Linux hosts for early detection.

Krawlstrong · 82

Krawl is a web deception server that deploys realistic fake web applications and decoy data to lure attackers and crawlers, producing fake credentials and canary tokens and tracking malicious activity—giving web-focused detection, logs, and deception telemetry for analysis.

Best for: Security engineers wanting a web-application-focused honeypot that lures attackers with realistic decoys and captures rich interaction data.

FortiGate VPN-SSL Honeypotstrong · 80

This deception honeypot specifically mimics FortiGate SSL‑VPN portals to trap brute-force and credential-exfiltration attempts, capturing login attempts, probes, and payloads with helper scripts for parsing, reporting, and alerting—covering detection, telemetry capture, and automated reporting.

Best for: Teams that want a targeted honeypot emulating VPN portals to detect credential attacks and feed external threat-intel systems.

Partly fits

HoneyLabspartial · 66

Provides 90-day honeypot telemetry and an IP lookup/report feed that helps analyze attacker behavior and enrich alerts, useful for forensic enrichment and IOC investigation though it doesn't deploy honeypots on your network.

Won’t cover: It's a public threat‑intel feed rather than a deployable honeypot you can host on your network.

PCAP Hunterpartial · 58

PCAP Hunter is an analysis workbench that turns packet captures into enriched, actionable DFIR artifacts and maps indicators to MITRE ATT&CK, aiding post‑event analysis of honeypot traffic and network captures rather than acting as a honeypot itself.

Won’t cover: It does not act as a honeypot or sensor; it assumes you already have PCAP or packet captures to analyze.

Security Onionpartial · 56

Security Onion bundles IDS, Zeek/Suricata, full packet capture and log management to support threat hunting and forensic analysis; it complements honeypots by ingesting their logs and network captures for correlation but is not itself a honeypot-first product.

Won’t cover: Its primary role is enterprise monitoring and DFIR, not deploying deception honeypots as the main sensor.

Toriipartial · 50

Torii is a reverse proxy that includes honeypot features and a live security dashboard, useful when exposing services to the internet and wanting request-level visibility alongside lightweight deception.

Won’t cover: Its core purpose is as a reverse proxy and gateway; the honeypot capability is an included feature rather than the main focus.

Questions

What's the best tool to deploy honeypots?

Knock-Knock is the strongest match — Knock-Knock is a live, multi-protocol honeypot with an animated dashboard covering SSH, Telnet, FTP, RDP, SMB, HTTP and more, designed to detect and visualize intrusion attempts across common network services—directly addressing detection, monitoring, and attacker telemetry needs.

Is there a tool that fully solves this?

4 products match this closely.

What won't these tools cover?

It's a public threat‑intel feed rather than a deployable honeypot you can host on your network. · It does not act as a honeypot or sensor; it assumes you already have PCAP or packet captures to analyze. · Its primary role is enterprise monitoring and DFIR, not deploying deception honeypots as the main sensor. · Its core purpose is as a reverse proxy and gateway; the honeypot capability is an included feature rather than the main focus.

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