Awesome Honeypots is a curated list of honeypot resources organized by category and focused on free and open source projects.
The list addresses the need for security practitioners to discover and evaluate honeypot tools and related components. It organizes resources across multiple categories including web honeypots, database honeypots, network analysis tools, and guides. The approach is straightforward: contributors add links to honeypot projects and related security tools, with entries ordered by contribution rather than any predetermined ranking.
Someone considering this list should understand it serves as a discovery and reference tool rather than a comparison framework. It suits practitioners building honeypot deployments who need to survey available options across different attack surfaces, particularly those focused on free and open source solutions. The list includes database honeypots for SQL and NoSQL systems, network analysis tools for examining captured traffic, and data tools for processing honeypot output. It also references related awesome lists covering packet capture tools and malware analysis, acknowledging overlap in the security tooling ecosystem.
The project accepts community contributions through a defined guide, with new entries added by contributors rather than maintained through a centralized curation process. The list remains organized by category and includes both honeypot implementations and complementary security resources.
