Evaluating DDoS tools
at Datacenter Forum?
FastNetMon is attending. Before you talk to them: their Advanced license starts at $115/month, and their new LiveView dashboard is $70/user/month on top of that. Flowtriq gives you DDoS detection, BGP FlowSpec, PCAP forensics, and unlimited team access at $9.99/node/month — with sub-second detection instead of 30-second NetFlow lag.
Built for your infrastructure
Flowtriq is used by data centers, hosting providers, and ISPs evaluating DDoS tools at industry events.
The pricing reality
What FastNetMon actually costs in 2026
FastNetMon launched LiveView in April 2026 — a web dashboard add-on at $70/user/month on top of their existing Advanced license. This is what the bill looks like for a typical NOC team attending events like Datacenter Forum.
FastNetMon Advanced (10G tier): $115/month. LiveView web dashboard: $70/user/month, billed separately. Dedicated server hardware: ~$100/month (not included in FastNetMon's pricing).
FastNetMon
- $115/mo base + $70/user/mo dashboard add-on
- Dedicated server required (~$60–150/mo extra)
- 30–60s detection latency via NetFlow
- No PCAP forensics
- No attack classification by type
- No L7 / HTTP flood detection
- No cloud API mitigations
- Trial by application — gated
Flowtriq — $9.99/node/month
- $9.99/node/month — unlimited users, dashboard included
- No dedicated server — agent on existing Linux hosts
- <1 second detection — kernel-level, unsampled
- PCAP with pre-attack ring buffer
- 7 attack families + confidence scoring
- L7 HTTP flood detection (nginx/apache/caddy logs)
- Cloud API mitigations (Cloudflare, DO, Vultr, Linode)
- 7-day free trial — no card, no application
Feature comparison
FastNetMon Advanced vs Flowtriq
For data center operators and network engineers who need specifics before making a decision.
| Capability | FastNetMon Advanced + LiveView | Flowtriq |
|---|---|---|
| Detection | ||
| Detection method | NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX (sampled) | Kernel-level per-packet, unsampled |
| Detection latency | 30–60s (NetFlow export interval) | <1 second |
| Attack classification | Flood type only (bandwidth/packet/flow) | 7 families + confidence score |
| L7 HTTP flood detection | L3/L4 only | Access log parsing |
| Botnet source flagging | No | 300+ known botnet sources |
| BGP & Mitigation | ||
| BGP RTBH blackhole | Yes | Yes |
| BGP FlowSpec | Advanced only ($115+/mo) | Included at $9.99/node |
| Automated FlowSpec | Manual — false positives block automation | Confidence-gated + auto-rollback |
| BGP speaker support | ExaBGP, GoBGP | ExaBGP, GoBGP, BIRD 2, FRRouting |
| Detection → BGP announcement | Manual or delayed | <2 seconds end-to-end |
| iptables / nftables / XDP | Script-based | 46 automated rule types |
| Forensics & Evidence | ||
| PCAP capture | Not available | Pre-attack ring buffer + analyzer |
| AI incident summaries | No | Yes |
| Automated postmortems (PDF/HTML/JSON) | No | Yes |
| Hash-chained audit log | No | SHA-256 |
| Operations & Scale | ||
| Web dashboard | LiveView add-on — +$70/user/mo | Included, unlimited users |
| Multi-tenant / per-customer isolation | No | Workspace-based, RBAC |
| REST API | Advanced only | Included |
| Prometheus metrics | Advanced only | 15+ metric families |
| Terraform provider | No | Yes |
| Alert channels | Email + Slack webhook | 12+: Discord, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, SMS… |
| Dedicated server required | Yes (~$60–150/mo) | No — agent on existing hosts |
| Setup time | Hours (server + BGP config + router setup) | 60 seconds: pip install ftagent |
For network engineers
How Flowtriq actually works
No black box. Here's the technical architecture for operators who need to understand the stack before deploying anything in a production data center.
Kernel-level capture
The agent uses AF_PACKET with BPF filtering to inspect every packet header on the interface — unsampled, at line rate. No NetFlow export dependency. No router configuration changes required.
EWMA dynamic baselines
Per-node baselines adapt automatically using Exponentially Weighted Moving Average. No manual threshold tuning. Baseline auto-learns in ~5 minutes. Handles diurnal patterns and traffic growth without intervention.
BGP FlowSpec automation
FlowSpec rules are generated from attack classification output and confidence score. Rules auto-rollback when confidence drops post-announcement. Works with ExaBGP, GoBGP, BIRD 2, and FRRouting.
PCAP ring buffer
A rolling pre-attack buffer captures the last N seconds of traffic before detection fires. When an incident is declared, the buffer is flushed and attached to the incident record — packet-level evidence from before the attack peaked.
Resource footprint
The agent uses <30 MB RAM and <0.1% CPU at idle on a typical server. Runs as a systemd service. Compatible with any Linux kernel ≥ 3.10. No kernel module, no DPDK, no PF_RING required.
Multi-tenant architecture
Workspace-based multi-tenancy with per-workspace RBAC (Owner, Admin, Analyst, Readonly). Data centers and MSPs can manage customer nodes under separate workspaces with isolated alerting and reporting.
Try it before Datacenter Forum — no gatekeeping
Full platform access for 7 days. No credit card. No application form. No bandwidth questionnaire. Works on any Linux server you already have.
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