Python
fail2ban/fail2ban
Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
★ 19k
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1.5k forks · 282 open issues
+7.4/day
Growth · measured
Stars counted between two of our own snapshots roughly a week apart. The repository page gives the exact span.
45.4
Momentum / 100
see the breakdown below
15y ago
Created
last push 4d ago
Star history
How this score was built
| Component | Weight | Earned | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velocity | 55 | 17.7 | +7.4/day, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling |
| Acceleration | 15 | 0.4 | last week ran 1.03× the monthly pace |
| Freshness | 15 | 14.9 | last push 4d ago; decays to zero at 180 days |
| Scale | 15 | 12.4 | 19k stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board |
| Momentum | 100 | 45.4 | sum of the above |
Detail
| Topics | anti-botattack-preventionban-hostsban-managementbsdfail2bangplv2hidsidsintrusion-detectionintrusion-preventionipslinuxloganalyzermacosmonitoringpythonsecuritysecurity-tools |
| Matched on | Security (security, security-tools) |
| Short window | +52 stars over 7 days = 7.4/day |
| Long window | +188 stars over 26 days = 7.2/day |
| Lifetime average | 3.44 stars/day over 5,517 days |
| First seen here | 2026-10-11 |
| Last read | 2d ago |