WarBrief Live | October 19, 2026 | Intelligence Tools
OSIRIS — the Open Source Intelligence & Reconnaissance Integrated System — is a browser-based OSINT dashboard that pulls live flight tracking, public CCTV, seismic and wildfire data, news streams, sanctions lists, and crypto wallet tracing into a single map. It is an open-source project (MIT license) with more than 11,000 GitHub stars as of October 2026, positioned by its author as an open alternative to closed intelligence platforms.
What OSIRIS does
At its core, OSIRIS is a single interactive world map with 16 toggleable data layers, rendered with WebGL so thousands of entities can display at once. Its aviation layer tracks commercial, private, and military jets through the OpenSky Network; the CCTV layer draws on more than 17,000 public cameras from transport authorities including TfL, WSDOT, Caltrans, and Taiwan’s THB. Seismic events above magnitude 2.5 arrive from the USGS earthquake API, wildfire hotspots from NASA FIRMS, severe weather from NASA EONET, and space weather and satellite passes from NOAA SWPC and N2YO.
The security layers matter most to conflict analysts. A RECON toolkit bundles a port scanner, DNS and WHOIS lookups, an SSL/TLS inspector, IP intelligence, and a CVE vulnerability scanner against the NVD database — with WHOIS and IP results automatically cross-checked against the OFAC sanctions list. A standalone sanctions tab searches persons, organizations, vessels, and aircraft against a US OFAC SDN mirror sourced from OpenSanctions, and Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet lookups flag addresses on the OFAC sanctioned-address list. A Telegram layer geoparses posts from public channels and plots them on the map.
How analysts use OSIRIS for conflict monitoring
OSIRIS works best as a triage screen rather than a single source of truth. An analyst watching a chokepoint such as Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb can pull up the maritime layer and pair it with independent ship-tracking techniques (see our guide to tracking ships with free OSINT tools) to cross-reference traffic patterns. The 15 curated conflict zones — spanning Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, the Red Sea, and the Taiwan Strait — pair with live news headlines and a GDELT events layer for geocoded incident data. The automatic OFAC cross-checks are directly relevant to shadow-fleet sanctions work: a WHOIS lookup on a shipping-company domain or an IP linked to a suspect vessel’s infrastructure automatically surfaces SDN hits. Browse the full WarBrief intelligence tools directory for related entries.
Access and pricing
OSIRIS is free and MIT-licensed: the code is public, a live demo runs at osirisai.live, and self-hosting takes a git clone plus npm install, or a single pull of the prebuilt Docker image. The README notes it works partially without any API keys, since core feeds use public, keyless sources; an optional AI forecasting module requires the user to supply their own model key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others). There is no paid tier — the project accepts voluntary support via Patreon.
Limitations to know
Honest framing matters: the maritime layer (39 ports, 10 chokepoints) and the 15 conflict zones are static, hand-kept lists — the README states this explicitly — not live measurements. CCTV coverage varies by district, and some feeds, such as Texas TxDOT snapshots, are refreshing JPEGs rather than video streams. As a community open-source project, it offers no enterprise support, service-level guarantees, or data governance — independent coverage has been careful to note it is not a substitute for a full enterprise platform. Like every aggregation tool, it can surface noise: feeds require analyst judgment and independent verification before they become evidence.
Sources
- GitHub: simplifaisoul/osiris (project repository and documentation)
- AI Finderz: OSIRIS AI LIVE explained (October 8, 2026)
- Hackers Arise: Using Osiris for Global Intelligence (August 29, 2026)
- SystemAdministration.net: Osiris, the open-source “Palantir” (June 2026)
