beelzebub
Honeypot framework designed to provide a highly secure environment for detecting and analyzing cyber attacks.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 34 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.10.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Network Utilities: Speedtest.net alternatives, Fing alternatives.
At a glance
beelzebub quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 2,222
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.10.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Deploy realistic decoys. Observe attacker behavior. Turn interactions into security evidence."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
beelzebub scores 93/100, #3 of 11 in Network Utilities: 34 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.10.0, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 2,222 stars add 13.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 6.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
34 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.10.0 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 13.4 / 20
2.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 34
- Last 90 days
- 113
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #3 of 11 tools in Network Utilities by health , between NetAlertX (#2) and Upsnap (#4) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, K8S, Go |
| Latest release | v3.10.0 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 2,222 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | beelzebub-labs/beelzebub ↗ |
beelzebub vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with beelzebub (Network Utilities), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyIP | 96 | 12k | MIT | today |
| NetAlertX | 95 | 7.3k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| beelzebub (this tool) | 93 | 2.2k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Upsnap | 85 | 6.4k | MIT | 20 days ago |
| whois | 85 | 66 | MIT | 6 days ago |
| Canary Tokens | 76 | 3.1k | BSD-3-Clause | 3 days ago |
beelzebub: common questions
Is beelzebub still maintained?
beelzebub had 34 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v3.10.0, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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