Attack alerts & reports

Get notified in Telegram, e-mail or your own webhook the second an attack starts — and download the evidence.

Guide1 min readUpdated 22 Sept 2026.md
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Channels#

Alerts can be sent to e-mail, Telegram, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty or any HTTPS webhook.

Shell
avenlith shield alert create --channel telegram --chat-id 123456789
avenlith shield alert create --channel webhook --url https://ops.example.com/hooks/shield
avenlith shield attacks list --since 7d --output table

Webhook payload#

JSON
{
  "event": "attack.started",
  "attack_id": "atk_9Qx2",
  "target": "203.0.113.24",
  "vector": "udp_amplification",
  "peak_bps": 412000000000,
  "peak_pps": 38200000,
  "mitigation": "scrubbing",
  "started_at": "2026-09-18T21:04:11Z"
}

Events: attack.started, attack.updated (every 60 s), attack.ended. Requests are signed with the X-Avenlith-Signature header (HMAC-SHA256).

Reports#

After each attack a report is generated with the vectors, peak bandwidth and packet rate, top source networks and a 10-second packet capture (PCAP) sample.

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