MozWire vs prometheus_wireguard_exporter

MozWire

MozWire is an unofficial configuration manager giving Linux, macOS users (among others), access to MozillaVPN. (by NilsIrl)

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prometheus_wireguard_exporter

A Prometheus exporter for WireGuard, written in Rust. (by MindFlavor)

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MozWire		prometheus_wireguard_exporter
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26	Mentions	4
527	Stars	444
-	Growth	-
2.3	Activity	0.0
12 months ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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MozWire

Posts with mentions or reviews of MozWire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-28.

Mozilla.social is live and open to registration
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023

> think they don't support plain wireguard/openvpn from CLI, you're stuck with a client not available for your officially supported OS...
This is possible, I had good results with https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire
MozillaVPN exclude list either doesn't work or I'm doing it wrong
1 project | /r/mozilla | 24 May 2023

If you're happy working directly with wireguard there's https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/ which will give you wireguard configs for MozillaVPN.
is mozillavpn cli friendly?
2 projects | /r/MozillaVPN | 8 Mar 2023

I've written a tool to use Mozilla VPN from the command line: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
Mozilla VPN - Transmission Server; Can I salvage this? What is the best case scenario?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 9 Feb 2023

You can use this: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
DMCA Notice from Google Fiber should I be freaking out the way I am? I was using QB with TorGuard, but the kill-switch must have not worked.
1 project | /r/Piracy | 8 Jan 2023

I wrote a program to be able to get wireguard config files using MozillaVPN you may be interested in: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
Mozilla VPN without official app possible?
1 project | /r/firefox | 29 Sep 2022

Not sure if this works with 10.13, but you can try: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire
Mozilla VPN bro working on mobile (iPhone iOS 16) since software update. Have uninstalled, turned phone on and off etc. it blocks all my traffic. Turned it off and got flooded with notifications. Anyone else experiencing issues?
1 project | /r/firefox | 16 Sep 2022

The Mozilla VPN app never worked for me. What I do is use Mozwire to get WireGuard configuration files and use the default WireGuard app works fine.
Thinking about rolling release
1 project | /r/DistroHopping | 30 Jun 2022

Hello, shameless plug here, you may be interested in this client for Mozilla VPN: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
Mozilla VPN Manual Wireguard Configs
1 project | /r/firefox | 2 Mar 2022
Question about open source (sorry if I sound dumb)
1 project | /r/opensource | 28 Jan 2022

Lastly (shameless plug) you can use Mozilla VPN without using the official client and use https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire.git (here the difference in terms of trust with MozillaVPN is mainly that MozWire is much smaller and so can be audited easily and MozWire is much easier to compile than the official mozilla vpn client).

prometheus_wireguard_exporter

Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus_wireguard_exporter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-04.

Monitoring external application outside of cluster
1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 22 Jun 2023

I have a wireguard VPN set up between a node on SITE A and a machine on SITE B. I want to utilize prometheus that is running inside the cluster to monitor the VPN connection using WireGuard Exporter (running on the SITE A node) and setting it up in accordance with this: WireGuard-vpn-s2s.
WireGuard show all dump not updating latest handshake
3 projects | /r/WireGuard | 4 Dec 2021

I'm using [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) NMS And [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) as a graphical display to monitor WireGuard connections and data metrics in general.I'm using a [WireGuard Metrics Exporter](https://github.com/MindFlavor/prometheus_wireguard_exporter/tree/master/src) that relies on the stdout of ` wg show all dump`
Self Hosted VPN Billing / User Management Software ?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 19 Jun 2021

Looks like a Prometheus exporter here: https://github.com/MindFlavor/prometheus_wireguard_exporter
Question About Two Different Containers Interacting With Each other
2 projects | /r/docker | 3 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MozWire and prometheus_wireguard_exporter you can also consider the following projects:

network-manager-wireguard - NetworkManager VPN Plugin: Wireguard

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy]

mozilla-vpn-client - A fast, secure and easy to use VPN. Built by the makers of Firefox.

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.

wireguard-vyatta-ubnt - WireGuard for Ubiquiti Devices

boringtun - Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust

unbound-telemetry - Prometheus exporter for Unbound DNS resolver

libvopono - Backend crate for vopono.

vopono - Run applications through VPN tunnels with temporary network namespaces

firefox-ios - Firefox for iOS

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.