CrowdSec
Open-source security engine that detects malicious behavior from logs and HTTP requests and blocks it through bouncers for web servers, reverse proxies and firewalls.
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CrowdSec is an open-source security engine that reads system logs and HTTP requests and detects behavior with scenarios. It does not block traffic itself: remediation components, called bouncers, enforce its decisions at the firewall, in web servers or in reverse proxies. The AppSec component adds web application firewall rules to web servers and reverse proxies that have a bouncer installed, and one engine can serve several of them.
CrowdSec, a French company, maintains the project. The engine is installed from packages or a Docker image, and a web console, offered as a hosted service, manages the setup alongside the cscli command-line tool.
Worth knowing
The console is a hosted service, and its Premium tier is paid. Sharing detected attacks is optional: the introduction says the sharing applies when a user participates, and in return the engine downloads the community blocklist from the central API.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-28: links
www.crowdsec.net/ - 2026-10-28: links, Install with, Admin interface
docs.crowdsec.net/docs/intro - 2026-10-28: links, Written in, Runtime, License, License model, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/crowdsecurity/crowdsec - 2026-10-28: First release
github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/releases - 2026-10-28: Maintainer, Maintained by, Headquarters
www.crowdsec.net/legal-notices - 2026-10-28: Categories
docs.crowdsec.net/docs/appsec/intro - 2026-10-28: Install with
docs.crowdsec.net/u/getting_started/installation/linux - 2026-10-28: Install with
docs.crowdsec.net/u/getting_started/installation/docker - 2026-10-28: Install with, Runs as
docs.crowdsec.net/u/getting_started/installation/windows - 2026-10-28: links
www.crowdsec.net/pricing - 2026-10-28: Current major version, Last release
github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/releases/tag/v1.8.2 - 2026-10-28: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-28: links
github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/blob/master/README.md