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Fail2ban

Auto-Detection
Built-in Metrics

Bleemeo monitors Fail2ban through automatic service detection and metrics collection for failed authentication and banned IPs.

Auto-Detection

Section titled “Auto-Detection”

Glouton automatically detects Fail2ban on the system and checks that the process stays active.

If Glouton was installed using wget or a system package, metrics are gathered with no further configuration. Otherwise, you must allow Glouton to run fail2ban-client status as root by adding the following to /etc/sudoers.d/glouton:

Cmnd_Alias FAIL2BAN = /usr/bin/fail2ban-client status, /usr/bin/fail2ban-client status *
glouton  ALL=(root) NOEXEC: NOPASSWD: FAIL2BAN
Defaults!FAIL2BAN !logfile, !syslog, !pam_session

If auto-detected parameters are incorrect, you can override them manually.

Terminal window
sudo tee /etc/glouton/conf.d/99-fail2ban.conf > /dev/null << 'EOF'
service:
  - type: "fail2ban"
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 0
EOF

Glouton automatically detects configuration changes.

Built-in Metrics

Section titled “Built-in Metrics”
Metric Description
service_status Status of Fail2ban
fail2ban_failed Number of failed authentications
fail2ban_banned Number of banned IPs