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, reach out to support@maltego.com or get in touch with your organization's customer services manager at Maltego.
Maltego monitor currently supports the following sources:
Sources | Method | Historical | Interval* |
— Twitter messages — GEO-locations — Twitter accounts | To can retrieve messages from Twitter, you can:
| 4 hours | Real-time |
YouTube — YouTube's 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 | 4 hours | 10 minutes |
— Posts — Reels — Stories | To retrieve messages from Instagram, you can:
| 4 hours | 15 minutes |
Public Facebook pages | To retrieve messages from Facebook, you add a public Facebook page to your searches. Caution: messages are only collected when one or multiple FB pages are added to a Search. | 24 hours | 5 minutes |
News websites Articles from English or German-speaking news outlets (national, regional, and local). | To retrieve messages from news websites, you add search terms to your searches.
| 4 hours | 5–15 minutes |
Fora — drugsforum.com — 4Chan.org | To retrieve messages from forums, you add search terms to your searches. | 4 hours | 10 minutes |
RSS feeds | To retrieve messages from RSS feeds, you add a feed to your monitor. Look for more information in this article about RSS. | 4 hours | 5 minutes** |
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. | 4 hours | 10 minutes |
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. | 24 hours | 10 minutes |
Snapchat — Snaps from Snap Map | To retrieve messages from Snapchat, you add a location to your searches. | Depending on Snapchat | 15 minutes |
TikTok | To retrieve messages from TikTok, you add a TikTok account to your searches. | None | 15 minutes |
*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.