# Fail2ban monitoring with Netdata Monitors the fail2ban log file to show all bans for all active jails. ## Requirements - fail2ban.log file MUST BE readable by Netdata (A good idea is to add **create 0640 root netdata** to fail2ban conf at logrotate.d) It produces one chart with multiple lines (one line per jail) ## Configuration Edit the `python.d/fail2ban.conf` configuration file using `edit-config` from the Netdata [config directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. ```bash cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different sudo ./edit-config python.d/fail2ban.conf ``` Sample: ```yaml local: log_path: '/var/log/fail2ban.log' conf_path: '/etc/fail2ban/jail.local' exclude: 'dropbear apache' ``` If no configuration is given, module will attempt to read log file at `/var/log/fail2ban.log` and conf file at `/etc/fail2ban/jail.local`. If conf file is not found default jail is `ssh`. --- [](<>)