OpenCanary¶
Welcome to the OpenCanary guide.
OpenCanary is a daemon that runs canary services, which trigger alerts when (ab)used. The alerts can be sent to a variety of sources, including syslog, emails and a companion daemon opencanary-correlator.
The Correlator coalesces multiple related events (eg. individual brute-force login attempts) into a single alert sent via email or SMS.
Getting Started¶
The first section will get you quickly up and running with canary services sending alerts.
Services¶
Try these out in the OpenCanary configs for more typical server personalities.
Alerting¶
Getting Started walks through two different ways to configure alerting: logging directly to a file, and sending alerts to the Correlator for email and SMS alerts. Other possibilities are below: