Anubis

Is Anubis actively maintained?

Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 299 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 127 of them.

Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 131% more commits than the one before it.

The most recent tagged release, v1.28.0-pre2, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Of the 77 projects we track in Miscellaneous, Anubis ranks #8 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.

What Anubis actually does

Anubis acts as a web firewall utility designed to shield backend services from automated scraper bots. It intercepts incoming HTTP traffic to filter out unwanted scraping activity before requests reach your upstream applications.

Best fit: Self-hosters and administrators who need to protect public-facing web applications or APIs from excessive automated scraping and data harvesting.

Worth knowing: Deploying a dedicated upstream traffic filter introduces an additional point of failure and potential latency for every incoming request. You will also need to monitor for false positives to ensure legitimate users are not blocked.

Deployment notes

Because it is built with Go and available as a Docker container, you can typically run it behind an existing reverse proxy that handles TLS termination. It generally sits in front of your core web services to inspect and route traffic accordingly.

Links

• Official website
• Source code