Canaries can be deployed in minutes (even on complex networks), giving you all of the benefits of a honeypot without the admin downsides.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)

EchidraOSS is described as 'Lightweight, high-performance open-source cyber deception platform. Built on an asynchronous Python 3.11 and FastAPI event loop, it keeps memory usage at 83MB and CPU flat under 20% during connection floods' and is an app in the development category. There are 2 alternatives to EchidraOSS for Linux and SaaS. The best EchidraOSS alternative is Thinkst Canary. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cowrie.
Canaries can be deployed in minutes (even on complex networks), giving you all of the benefits of a honeypot without the admin downsides.

Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker. Cowrie also functions as an SSH and telnet proxy to observe attacker behavior to another system.