monsterops 1.13.0

A self-hosted network operations platform built around FreeRADIUS

MonsterOps

MonsterOps is a self-hosted network operations platform for ISPs, enterprise networks, and anyone running a FreeRADIUS environment — RADIUS users & groups, NAS devices, IP pools, sessions & accounting, auth analytics, RADIUS proxy/realms, VPN tunnels, a safe nftables firewall manager, automation, and a REST API, all in one dashboard.

Built with FastAPI + PostgreSQL and a vanilla-JS Web Components frontend — a single Python package, no Node.js, no build step.

Highlights

• RADIUS users & groups — full radcheck/radreply/radusergroup CRUD, bulk CSV, per-user session & auth history
• NAS management — vendor presets and NAS groups, ICMP reachability monitoring, plus an SSH/Telnet NAS Manager (pull, version, diff, and push config; one-click "point a NAS at RADIUS" deploy; encrypted credentials)
• Firewall manager — a dedicated nftables table with staged apply, snapshot + auto-rollback, and adaptive access control (brute-force / country blocking) built to keep you from locking yourself out
• Sessions & analytics — live sessions with CoA disconnect, accounting history, and auth logs with geo-location + anomaly detection
• And more — RADIUS proxy & realms, WireGuard / L2TP-IPsec VPN tunnels, automation & scheduling, webhooks, a scoped REST API, and integrations (Zabbix, Graylog, GeoIP2)

See the full capability list in the Reference.

Get Started

Requires Python 3.11+ and a reachable PostgreSQL 15+ database (the same one FreeRADIUS uses).

Production (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/NLRI65000/MonsterOps.git
cd MonsterOps
sudo bash deploy/install.sh

The installer sets up the service user, database, FreeRADIUS SQL integration, a systemd unit, and optional tooling (VPN backends, nftables, sudoers rules). Re-run deploy/upgrade.sh to update an existing install in place.

From PyPI

pip install monsterops
export MONSTEROPS_DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://user:pass@localhost/radius
export MONSTEROPS_SECRET_KEY=$(python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))")
monsterops migrate            # create/upgrade the database schema
monsterops serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

The migrations ship inside the package, so monsterops migrate works without a source checkout. (You can also put the settings in a .env file in the working directory instead of exporting them.)

From source (manual)

git clone https://github.com/NLRI65000/MonsterOps.git
cd MonsterOps
pip install -e .
cp .env.example .env          # set MONSTEROPS_DATABASE_URL and MONSTEROPS_SECRET_KEY
monsterops migrate            # or, from a checkout: alembic upgrade head
monsterops serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000 and complete the first-run wizard to create your superadmin account.

Before production: change MONSTEROPS_SECRET_KEY from its default (the app warns until you do) and serve over HTTPS. See the User Guide.

Documentation

• User Guide — install, configure, navigate the UI, core features (including firewall safety), and finding logs
• Reference — full feature list, configuration variables, roles, CLI, architecture, plugins, tech stack, and roadmap

Security

Found a security vulnerability? Please don't open a public issue. Report it privately by email to [e-mail] — see SECURITY.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.