Hey everyone,
I wanted to run high-fidelity network canaries in my homelab, but I couldn't justify enterprise pricing, and I wasn't a fan of managing custom orchestration across all my VMs to make available oss solutions work.
So, I built HoneyWire. It’s a completely free, open-source distributed deception platform.
It uses a point-in-time CLI wizard to deploy hardened, distroless Docker traps. You run the command once, it spins up the decoy, registers it to your centralized Hub dashboard, and the setup agent completely exits. No persistent background daemons.
Features:
Zero-Agent: No ongoing background overhead on your hosts.
Centralized UI: View fleet health, uptime, and lateral movement alerts in dark mode.
Alerting: Built-in push notifications and SIEM forwarding.
Privacy: 100% free, open-source, and strictly zero telemetry.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/andreicscs/HoneyWire Landing Page: https://honeywire.dev/
Would love to hear your thoughts on the architecture or any feedback if you test it out!
That explains it, i still find it weird that the hub was crashing too, but the issue is now solved either way. I just released a hotfix for the sensor. I also released a hotfix for the hub to polish deployment UX and fix a minor issue with sensor updates, i recommend you run 'docker compose up -d --pull always hub' to update the hub and, you should be able to update the sensor from the hub if you haven't already.
Thanks for the help!