# dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot

:honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page.

Repository: https://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-admin-honeypot
Homepage: http://django-admin-honeypot.readthedocs.io/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, django
Last push: 2024-04-10T14:22:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5468, "days_push": 875, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1085, forks 207 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:31.945902+00:00)

## What it is
A Django app that serves a fake admin login screen at the standard /admin/ URL to trap unauthorized access attempts. It logs and notifies site admins of these attempts while the real admin lives at a secret URL.

## Use cases
- detect brute-force attacks on my Django admin
- get notified when someone tries to log into /admin/
- hide my real Django admin URL behind a secret path
- log unauthorized admin login attempts
- add a honeypot to a Django site

## When to choose
- you run a Django site with an admin interface exposed to the internet
- you want simple, low-effort visibility into admin attack attempts

## When to avoid
- you need a full WAF or intrusion detection system
- your project is not Django
- you need active blocking rather than logging and notification

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, logging, alerting
- domain: security, web-development, backend
- platform: python
- tags: django, honeypot, admin-security, intrusion-detection, web-server

## Member repositories
- dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:31.945902+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:49:42.861325+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:31.945902+00:00, sha f0aae2671a77)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-admin-honeypot/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:53:13.757945+00:00, sha b7abb96cf015)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.