Maltego Monitor (previously PublicSonar) is continuously optimizing the sources offered in the tool. We also welcome suggestions for new sources!
For suggestions or to add already supported sources to your monitor, please submit a ticket through Maltego Support Portal or get in touch with your organization's customer services manager at Maltego.
Maltego Monitor currently supports the following sources:
Sources | Method | Description | Historical* | Interval** | Comments/Replies Collected |
X — X messages — GEO-locations — X accounts | To can retrieve messages from X, you can:
| You can retrieve all publicly available information (Free Text Search) from X, ensuring you don't miss any data. Monitor captures recent posts from accounts, channels, and groups, and can even pull information based on geolocation. If you post a message to X, you'll see it reflected in the tool almost immediately. | 4 hours | Real-time | Yes |
YouTube — YouTube videos — YouTube comments | To retrieve videos from YouTube, you add search terms to your searches.
To retrieve comments on YouTube videos, you add YouTube channels as account searches. | You can retrieve recent posts from accounts, channels, and groups. | 4 hours | 10 minutes | Yes (when searching by channels) |
— Posts — Reels — Stories | To retrieve messages from Instagram, you can:
| You can retrieve recent posts (approximately 20-30) associated with a specific hashtag, as well as recent posts from accounts, channels, and groups. | 4 hours | 1 hour | No |
Public Facebook pages | To retrieve posts from Facebook, you add a public Facebook page to your searches. Caution: posts are only collected when one or multiple FB pages are added to a Search. | You can retrieve recent posts (approximately 20-30) associated with a specific hashtag, as well as recent posts from accounts, channels, and groups. | 24 hours | 5 minutes | Yes |
News websites Articles from English or German-speaking news outlets (national, regional, and local). | To retrieve content from news websites, you add search terms to your searches.
| You can get a sample of recent public content from news websites, helping you with awareness and discovery of emerging information and accounts to follow. | 4 hours | 5–15 minutes | No |
Fora — drugsforum.com — 4Chan.org | To retrieve messages from forums, you add search terms to your searches. | You can get a sample of recent public content from forums, perfect for awareness and discovering new information. | 4 hours | 10 minutes | No |
RSS feeds | To retrieve messages from RSS feeds, you add a feed to your monitor. Look for more information in this article about RSS. | You can get all data from any RSS feed you add. | 4 hours | 5 minutes*** | No |
Mastodon | To retrieve messages from Mastodon servers / instances, you add a server / instance to your monitor. Look for more information in this article about Mastodon. | You can get access to data on Mastodon that is only available through your own account. | 4 hours | 10 minutes | Yes |
Telegram — Telegram groups — Telegram channels | To retrieve messages from Telegram, you add a Telegram account to your monitor. Read more about how this works in this article. | You can get access to data on Telegram that is only available through your own account. | 24 hours | 10 minutes | No |
To retrieve messages from Whatsapp, you add a Whatsapp account to your monitor. You can then monitor channels/groups for messages. | You can get access to data on WhatsApp that is only available through your own account. | 4 hours | 10 minutes | No | |
Snapchat — Stories from Snapchat accounts | To retrieve stories from Snapchat, you add a Snapchat Account to your searches | You can retrieve recent posts from Snapchat accounts. | Depending on Snapchat | 1 hour | No |
TikTok | To retrieve posts from TikTok, you can: - add a TikTok account to your searches. - add search terms. | You can discover new content and accounts on TikTok. You'll get a sample of recent public posts (Free Text Search), including approximately 20-30 recent posts for a specific hashtag, and recent posts from accounts, channels, or groups you're interested in. This provides enough data to keep you informed and help you find new things to follow. | None | free text: ~4 hours hashtags: 15 minutes account search: 70 minutes | Yes (comments are not collected for account and hashtag search) |
| VKontakte (VK) | To retrieve posts from VK, you can add VK accounts to your search. | You can retrieve all publicly available information (Free Text Search) from VK, ensuring you don't miss any data. If you create a search and post to VK, you'll see it reflected in the tool almost immediately. | 4 hours | Real-time | Yes |
*Up to X minutes/hours of historical data will be collected once a search is added.
**The interval gives an indication of how fast information from sources is collected. It is possible that it takes some time before it's shown in Maltego Monitor (on average 2-3 minutes). This is not true for Twitter as this source is completely real-time.
*** Although Maltego Monitor (previously PublicSonar) collects information from RSS feeds every 5 minutes, we are dependent on how quick the RSS feed is updated by its associated website.