Abuse Detection for OpenVZ Node

roboticpuppies · May 22, 2020

Hello, can anybody suggest me some tools to automatically detect VPS that doing abuse on OpenVZ 7 node? I only found Nodewatch and VPSMon. But they're outdated and only run on Centos 6 or OpenVZ 6.

I need to detect these kinds of abuse :

Spamming
Malware / Miners
Outgoing Flood

Thank you.

hostnamaste · Feb 14, 2025

We are using Nodewatch on OpenVZ 7 and it is working fine.

Emily Routledge · Saturday at 4:46 PM

roboticpuppies said:
Hello, can anybody suggest me some tools to automatically detect VPS that doing abuse on OpenVZ 7 node? I only found Nodewatch and VPSMon. But they're outdated and only run on Centos 6 or OpenVZ 6.

I need to detect these kinds of abuse :

Spamming

Malware / Miners

Outgoing Flood

Thank you.

On OpenVZ 7 I’d ditch Nodewatch and go with a combo of modern, distro‑friendly tools:

CSF/LFD – it’ll parse your mail logs for high outbound mail rates (spam) and block abusive IPs.
PSAD – watches iptables for port‐scan/flood patterns and alerts you.
Maldet + ClamAV – cron‑scan your containers for known malware/miners.
Falco (Sysdig) – real‑time container‑level anomaly detection (suspicious processes, crypto‑mining syscalls, etc.).
OSSEC/Wazuh – a full HIDS for log monitoring, file‑integrity checks and custom alerts.

Glue them into a simple dashboard (Netdata or Prometheus+Grafana) so CPU/network spikes and floods pop out immediately. That stack will cover spam, malware/miners and outgoing floods on an OpenVZ 7 host.

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