AbuseIPDB

AbuseIPDB

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Check, report, and block abusive IPs with community-powered threat intelligence

AnalyticsDeveloperSecurityAutomationMonitoring & Alerts

AbuseIPDB is a community-powered IP reputation and threat intelligence database that lets you check whether an IP address has been reported for malicious activity — brute-force attacks, port scanning, web app exploits, spam, and more. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can screen inbound leads, logins, and payments against the database, automatically report attacker IPs discovered in your server logs, sync the daily blacklist to your firewall, and maintain a fully auditable record of every threat intelligence action — all without a human logging into the AbuseIPDB dashboard.

Average time saved
7 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of copying IPs into the AbuseIPDB website, managing firewall blocklist updates by hand, and assembling weekly security intelligence reports from raw log data.

Schedule

What your AbuseIPDB agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

AbuseIPDB × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
8Apps spanned
~69 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For security
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Login attack detected, IPs screened and reported automatically

When Datadog raises a failed-login spike alert, the agent checks every flagged source IP against AbuseIPDB and retrieves the full report history for confirmed bad actors. A threat summary goes to #security-ops on Slack, confirmed attack IPs are reported to the AbuseIPDB community, and the full incident is logged to the security register — all before a human has opened the alert.

~5 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When Datadog raises a failed-login spike security alert
Trigger
Step 1
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Datadog
Receive security alert for failed login spike
Result
Post detailed IP threat summary to #security-opsReport IP Address for confirmed attack IPsLog incident with IP intelligence to security register
The win
Saved per run
35 min
Runs / week
~8×
Attacks are documented and reported to the community within about a minute
Driven byOperations Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    45 min / week
    Manual lead fraud investigation

    Sales reps spend time pursuing leads that turn out to be bots or fraudulent submissions, only discovering the issue after investing in outreach calls and sequence enrollment.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent screens lead IPs before rep assignment

    When a new lead submits a form, the agent checks their IP against AbuseIPDB and writes the confidence score to the CRM — reps only see pre-screened leads with reputation context attached.

  • Marketing
    60 min / week
    Manual ad fraud investigation

    Marketing analysts manually investigate suspicious click patterns after the fact, often discovering that significant campaign budget was consumed by bot traffic only at month-end reporting.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent flags fraudulent ad clicks before analytics are distorted

    After each campaign run, the agent checks click-source IPs against AbuseIPDB and marks invalid clicks before they inflate conversion metrics — decisions are made on clean data.

  • Customer Support
    30 min / week
    Manual ticket triage and investigation

    Support agents manually investigate every suspicious ticket, spending time corresponding with what turn out to be attackers probing for information or exploiting support channels.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent routes suspicious tickets by IP reputation automatically

    Support tickets from high-abuse IPs are automatically routed to the security queue with IP intelligence attached — the team never manually processes known attacker submissions.

  • Human Resources
    20 min / week
    Manual application fraud screening

    Recruiters sometimes schedule screening calls with applicants who turn out to be fake profiles generated by bots, discovering the fraud only after the call is booked or held.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent screens application IPs before recruiter time is invested

    Job applications from datacenter or high-abuse IPs are flagged before any recruiter reviews them — fake applicants are filtered out before consuming screening time.

  • Finance
    90 min / week
    Reactive post-payment fraud investigation

    Finance teams review chargebacks and fraud reports after transactions have settled, investigating IP origins retrospectively when the money has already moved and disputes have been filed.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent adds IP reputation layer to every payment before capture

    When a payment intent is created, the agent checks the payer's IP and writes the abuse score to the payment metadata — high-risk payments are flagged before money moves.

  • Operations
    120 min / week
    Manual firewall blocklist management

    Security operations teams manually download threat feeds, curate blocklists, and update firewall rules — a process that runs weekly at best, leaving days of coverage gaps between updates.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent runs daily blacklist sync and nightly bulk-reporting

    The operations agent syncs the AbuseIPDB blacklist to the firewall daily and bulk-reports all log-detected attacker IPs nightly — threat intelligence workflows run without human scheduling.

  • Legal
    40 min / week
    Manual compliance documentation

    Legal teams manually track which IPs were reported to AbuseIPDB, when, and why — maintaining a spreadsheet that is always slightly out of date and requires effort to reconcile at audit time.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent maintains auditable IP report log for compliance

    The legal agent reconciles every AbuseIPDB submission against the incident log weekly and manages report retractions programmatically — the audit trail is always current without manual assembly.

+ 100s of other AbuseIPDB automations
Average time saved
41 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
9
Hours saved / year
450
Annual ROI
$33,750

Based on AbuseIPDB's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug AbuseIPDB into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect with an AbuseIPDB API key. Free accounts include 1,000 requests per day; Webmaster-verified accounts receive 3,000 per day. The key is passed in the Key HTTP header for all API calls.

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Log in to AbuseIPDB

Create a free account at abuseipdb.com if you don't already have one. Navigate to your account dashboard and click API.

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Generate your API key

Click Create Key, give it a descriptive name (e.g. 'Actionist'), and copy the generated key. Store it securely — it will not be shown again.

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Paste into Actionist and test

Paste the key into the API Key field below and click Test connection. Actionist will run a test check to verify the key is valid.

Credentials you'll need
API Key*
Generate at abuseipdb.com/account/api — requires a free account. The key is sent in the Key HTTP header.
Actions

12 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
MCP servers

MCP servers that work with AbuseIPDB

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FAQs

Questions about AbuseIPDB + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to AbuseIPDB?
Go to the Apps tab, find AbuseIPDB, and click Connect. Enter your AbuseIPDB API key — you can generate one from your account dashboard at abuseipdb.com/account/api. Actionist runs a test check against a known benign IP (127.0.0.1) to verify the key is valid before any live actions run. Free accounts support up to 1,000 requests per day; paid Webmaster and premium plans raise this to 3,000 or more.
What permissions does the agent need on my AbuseIPDB account?
The API key needs no special scope settings — it is a single account-level key that grants access to all endpoints your subscription tier allows. Generate it at abuseipdb.com/account/api. Keep it secret: treat it like a password, store it in a secrets manager, and rotate it if your account shows unexpected usage. The key is sent in the `Key` HTTP header for every API call.
Can I connect AbuseIPDB to other apps in the same workflow?
Yes — AbuseIPDB is most effective when embedded in the tools where threats already surface. Common combinations: check IPs extracted from server logs or SIEM alerts (Splunk, Datadog); report abusive IPs discovered in firewall deny-logs or fail2ban output; pull the daily blacklist into a Google Sheet or Notion security register; trigger a Slack or Telegram alert when a checked IP exceeds a confidence-of-abuse threshold; combine the bulk-report endpoint with CSV exports from your WAF or CDN.
What does the confidence of abuse score mean and how should I act on it?
The confidence score (0–100) returned by the Check IP endpoint reflects what proportion of AbuseIPDB reporters flagged that IP as abusive, weighted by the recency and volume of reports. A score of 100 means every reporter unanimously flagged it as malicious. Treat scores above 80 as high-confidence block candidates, 25–79 as worth logging and monitoring, and below 25 as generally safe — but always layer this with your own traffic context before blocking legitimate users behind shared IPs (e.g., corporate NAT).
How does bulk IP reporting work and what format does the CSV need?
The Bulk Report endpoint accepts a standard CSV (RFC 4180) with columns: IP, Categories (comma-separated category numbers), and ReportDate. The maximum CSV size is 10,000 rows per submission. Category codes are integers 1–23 covering attack types such as SSH brute force (22), port scan (14), web app attack (21), and DDoS (4). Reference the full category list at docs.abuseipdb.com/#reporting. The Actionist agent can generate and submit this CSV automatically from firewall or server log data.
How do I use AbuseIPDB's blacklist in my firewall or WAF automatically?
The Blacklist endpoint returns up to 10,000 IP addresses with a confidence score at or above your chosen threshold (default 100, minimum 25). Free accounts receive a plain-text IP list; paid subscribers get a JSON response with additional metadata per IP. Use the agent to pull this list on a schedule — daily or hourly — and feed it into your firewall allow/deny rules, WAF blocklist, or security register automatically. The list reflects the last 30 days of reports.
Can I check an entire IP range or subnet instead of a single IP?
The Check Block endpoint accepts a CIDR network notation (e.g., 198.51.100.0/24) and returns abuse reports for every individual IP within that subnet. This is particularly useful when you suspect an entire hosting range or cloud provider's subnet is being used for attacks. The response includes per-IP confidence scores and report counts so you can triage the subnet rather than blocking it wholesale.
Can the agent retract a report I submitted by mistake?
The Clear Address endpoint lets you remove all abuse reports your account has submitted for a specific IP address. Use it when you have reported an IP by mistake, or when the owner has resolved the abuse and the address has been reassigned. This only affects reports from your account — you cannot clear reports submitted by other AbuseIPDB users. Call it via the agent when your own monitoring pipeline detects a false positive and needs to self-correct without manual dashboard access.