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Sergey G. Brester edited this page 2026-04-07 15:39:53 +02:00

Table of Contents

• Fail2ban Web Control
• Fail2ban UI

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Fail2ban Web Control

• View the global status of Fail2ban
• See active jails and their details
• Ban/unban IP addresses
• The solution is available as a Docker container or can be installed from GitHub.
• Container image: https://hub.docker.com/r/oweitman/fail2bancontrol
• Repository: https://github.com/oweitman/fail2bancontrol

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Fail2ban UI

• Central dashboard for maintaining multiple Fail2ban instances (local and remote)
• Active jails, banned IPs overview, manual ban/unban, jail/filter management (create / edit / delete)
• Filter testing and hot-debugging features through the webUI on selected servers
• Integrated alert-providers such as email / webhook / Elasticsearch to parse and forward alerts
• Repository: https://github.com/swissmakers/fail2ban-ui
• Container image: https://hub.docker.com/r/swissmakers/fail2ban-ui
• Docs: Installation · Configuration · Troubleshooting

Best practice
How fail2ban works

HowTo's

• Manually install or upgrade
• Test newer fail2ban version
• Create standalone instance
• Ban something other as host/IP, like user or e-mail
• Simple Troubleshooting of Regex

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FAQ

• Configuration

  • No failure or no ban detection
  • Proper fail2ban configuration
  • Fail2ban Troubleshooting
  • How fail2ban substitution resp. runtime interpolation works