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  • Getting started
    • Quickstart - events flowing in 5 minutes
    • Installation - add Guard Core to your FastAPI app
  • Concepts
    • How a request flows through fastapi-guard
    • Platform architecture - the four domains
    • Telemetry data flow - detection to dashboard
  • Onboarding
    • API keys & encryption setup
    • Trusted proxies & client IP detection
    • Passive mode vs fail-secure
    • Rate limiting & auto-ban
    • Honeypots & threat-based banning
    • Dynamic rules
    • Behavioral detection
    • Geo + cloud-provider blocking
    • Detection exclusions
    • Decorator stack & order of evaluation
    • OpenTelemetry integration
    • Redis backend & failure modes
    • Agent buffering & backpressure
    • Encryption key rotation
    • GDPR posture
    • Security headers & CORS
    • Coordinated attack detection
    • Campaign detection
  • Troubleshooting
    • Events not appearing in the dashboard
    • 500s on healthy requests after deploy
    • CORS errors and HTTPS redirect loops
    • Legitimate traffic getting rate-limited or banned
    • Encrypted events rejected after key rotation
    • Troubleshooting - agent offline or not reporting
    • Troubleshooting - agent offline, quick checklist
  • Reference
    • Core API - overview and authentication
    • Agent telemetry API
    • Managing projects, keys, and encryption
    • Upgrade guide - breaking changes by version

Documentation

Operational reference for fastapi-guard, guard-core, and guard-agent.

Getting started

  • Quickstart - events flowing in 5 minutes
  • Installation - add Guard Core to your FastAPI app

Concepts

  • How a request flows through fastapi-guard
  • Platform architecture - the four domains
  • Telemetry data flow - detection to dashboard

Onboarding

  • API keys & encryption setup
  • Trusted proxies & client IP detection
  • Passive mode vs fail-secure
  • Rate limiting & auto-ban
  • Honeypots & threat-based banning
  • Dynamic rules
  • Behavioral detection
  • Geo + cloud-provider blocking
  • Detection exclusions
  • Decorator stack & order of evaluation
  • OpenTelemetry integration
  • Redis backend & failure modes
  • Agent buffering & backpressure
  • Encryption key rotation
  • GDPR posture
  • Security headers & CORS
  • Coordinated attack detection
  • Campaign detection

Troubleshooting

  • Events not appearing in the dashboard
  • 500s on healthy requests after deploy
  • CORS errors and HTTPS redirect loops
  • Legitimate traffic getting rate-limited or banned
  • Encrypted events rejected after key rotation
  • Troubleshooting - agent offline or not reporting
  • Troubleshooting - agent offline, quick checklist

Reference

  • Core API - overview and authentication
  • Agent telemetry API
  • Managing projects, keys, and encryption
  • Upgrade guide - breaking changes by version
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