Moloch
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- Apache License 2.0
- Programming languages
- C, Node.js
- Latest release
- 5.1.1
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
Moloch comes with a web interface that allows for easy browsing of pcap data (packet capture). It can also search in the data or export it. Besides pcap, the JSON format is supported, so data can be easily consumed in other tools (like Wireshark).
Why this tool?
Tools like Moloch are a great addition to everyone working with network data. One common use-case is that of network security monitoring (NSM). Here is can help with making all data more accessible and finding anomalies in the data.
Usage and audience
Moloch is commonly used for network security monitoring or security monitoring. Target users for this tool are network administrators, security professionals, and system administrators.
Features
- JSON output supported
- Support for pcap (packet capture)
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 3000 GitHub stars
- + Many releases available
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Supported by a large company
Installation
Supported operating systems
Moloch is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a network security monitoring tool.