Welcome to Fail2Ban-Report Discussions!

[SubleXBle]

👋 Welcome to the Fail2Ban-Report Discussions!

This is our community hub for all users and developers (right now it is only me) of Fail2Ban-Report.

Here you can:

• Ask questions and get answers
• Share ideas and feature requests
• Discuss new features, use cases, and troubleshooting
• Exchange your experiences and tips with others

We encourage respectful and open communication. Every contribution helps make the project better and more useful for everyone!

Feel free to start by introducing yourself and sharing how you use Fail2Ban-Report or what you'd like to see.

Let’s grow together and keep improving Fail2Ban-Report! 💪

[blimeybloke]

Huge thanks for starting this, its amazing. This made it pretty easy to monitor the log. I saw you mentioned on reddit you were looking to see if you could add/remove bans which really puts fail2ban on another plane.

[SubleXBle]

Thank you so much for the kind words and support – I truly appreciate it!

I'm currently preparing the next release (planned for today or tomorrow), which will already take things a step further:
You'll be able to block IPs directly from the log view, and to bring more control into the process, these manual blocks are tracked in a separate blocklist.json file – including a state: active/false flag for each entry. This helps ensure bans can be reviewed, toggled, and managed more transparently.

While full integration with Fail2Ban jails will take a bit longer, to get things right this intermediate step using UFW for ban/unban actions, along with basic reporting features (e.g., how often an IP has already been reported – more to come here!) should already make the tool more useful and show that it's heading in the right direction for user-controlled ban management.

Just to mention again: I'm not a developer by trade – just a sysadmin with an interest in coding – so I'm intentionally taking things slow and careful to build something clean and useful in the long run.

I'm really curious to see how the next version will be received. It's still a transition step, but I believe it will clearly show that the Project points in the right direction.

[SubleXBle]

[SubleXBle]

Addition:

With the upcoming release, I’m planning to include an experimental Fail2Ban integration, which will allow the blocklist.json to interact directly with Fail2Ban jails.
While this won't yet be considered a full or default integration, giving users a choice between UFW and Fail2Ban, while not yet recommended
This way, we’re moving step by step toward full Fail2Ban integration – and at the same time keeping the door open for future support of other firewalls as well.

UFW is installed on many systems by default, so it’s a convenient intermediate step for me to ensure that banning works reliably — without rushing into full Fail2Ban integration and risking interference with existing setups.

[blimeybloke]

Whoa thats impressive. I also use UFW too, its a great tool. Hopefully you are testing on a local machine or atleast have an IP excluded lol.

[SubleXBle]

thy - no worries, testing on a good setup 👍
trying not to get reported to AbuseIPDB 😄