FastNetMon Just Launched a Web Dashboard.
Here's What It Costs.

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FastNetMon has been the go-to CLI-based DDoS detection tool for ISPs and hosting providers for years. The Advanced edition added BGP FlowSpec, per-host thresholds, and a REST API. But one thing it never had was a proper web interface. You configured it by editing files. You monitored it from a terminal. If you wanted a dashboard, you set up Grafana yourself.

That changed on April 29, 2026. FastNetMon launched LiveView — a purpose-built web interface for FastNetMon Advanced. According to the announcement, LiveView provides real-time traffic charts, attack visibility, team RBAC (Owner, Admin, Read-only), and web-based configuration management.

This is a meaningful product update. A web interface makes FastNetMon accessible to operators who aren't comfortable in the CLI, and it addresses one of the most consistent complaints from existing customers.

But the pricing model deserves close attention before you decide whether to add it.

What FastNetMon LiveView costs

LiveView is sold as a separate product with its own subscription, layered on top of the existing FastNetMon Advanced license. It is not included in any existing Advanced plan.

• $70/user/month billed monthly
• $720/user/year billed annually (~$60/user/month)

FastNetMon Advanced itself is priced by traffic tier:

• $115/month — 10 Gbps plan
• $220/month — 40 Gbps plan
• $350/month — 100 Gbps plan

These are the software license costs only. FastNetMon Advanced still requires a dedicated server with at minimum 16 GB RAM, 8 CPU cores (SSE 4.2 required), and 150 GB+ SSD — typically $60–150/month of additional infrastructure that does not appear on the FastNetMon invoice.

What the combined cost looks like by team size

The per-user pricing makes the total cost grow quickly for any team larger than one person.

Team Size	Advanced Base	LiveView Add-on	Total/Month
1 user	$115	$70	$185/mo
3 users	$115	$210	$325/mo
5 users	$115	$350	$465/mo
10 users	$220 (40G tier)	$700	$920/mo

This is before the dedicated server cost (~$60–150/month) and the $85 one-time activation fee applied to monthly Advanced subscriptions.

What FastNetMon LiveView includes

Based on the launch announcement, FastNetMon LiveView provides:

• Real-time traffic visualization (inbound/outbound PPS and BPS)
• Attack event timeline and visibility
• Team access with role-based controls (Owner, Admin, Read-only)
• Web-based configuration management for FastNetMon Advanced settings

LiveView is a web interface add-on. It does not change FastNetMon's underlying detection engine, mitigation capabilities, or the attack classification behavior that existing customers have noted as a limitation. The detection is still FastNetMon Advanced detection. The web UI makes it more accessible.

What FastNetMon LiveView does not include

For context, here are capabilities that remain absent from FastNetMon Advanced even after the LiveView launch:

• Multi-vector attack classification — FastNetMon categorizes attacks as bandwidth, packet, or flow floods. It does not distinguish SYN floods, DNS amplification, UDP fragmentation, or application-layer attack types. (Customer-confirmed, including by Aire Networks.)
• PCAP forensics — FastNetMon operates on flow data and does not capture packets during attacks. No evidence buffer, no upload analyzer.
• Sub-second detection — Detection latency is measured in seconds to minutes depending on flow export intervals. The PrimeTel CTO described detection as "within a minute."
• L7 / HTTP flood detection — No access log parsing for application-layer attacks.
• AI incident summaries or automated postmortem reports
• Cloud API mitigations (Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
• Terraform provider
• Kafka export

The point is not that FastNetMon is a bad tool — it is a solid fit for ISPs and hosting providers with the right BGP infrastructure. The point is that LiveView is a UI layer, not a detection or mitigation upgrade. Teams evaluating it should separate the two questions: "Is this web interface worth $70/user/month?" and "Does FastNetMon Advanced meet our detection requirements?"

How this compares to Flowtriq

We are obviously not a neutral party here, but the numbers are factual and worth including for anyone doing a direct evaluation.

Flowtriq is a SaaS DDoS detection platform that includes a web dashboard with real-time traffic charts, team RBAC, attack forensics, BGP FlowSpec, and automated mitigation at $9.99/node/month with unlimited users. The dashboard is not an add-on. Every account gets it. Adding five team members does not change the bill.

A 3-person team with 20 nodes: FastNetMon Advanced + LiveView = $325+/month. Flowtriq = $199.80/month. Both include a web dashboard. Only one includes PCAP forensics, multi-vector classification, and sub-second detection.

For a direct feature-by-feature comparison — including detection speed, mitigation rule types, alerting channels, and forensics — see: FastNetMon LiveView vs Flowtriq: Full Comparison →

The bottom line

FastNetMon LiveView solves a real problem: the CLI-only workflow was a legitimate barrier for operators and NOC teams who expected a web interface. The feature set sounds reasonable for what it is.

The pricing model — per-user, on top of an existing license — means the total cost grows with your team in a way that may surprise existing customers who assumed a dashboard would eventually be part of the base product. At $70/user/month, a 3-person team adds $210/month to an already $115+/month base bill.

Whether that's worth it depends on what you need and what you're comparing it against. The comparison page at /fastnetmon-liveview-alternative has the full breakdown if you want to dig in.