boringtun vs prometheus_wireguard_exporter

boringtun

Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust (by cloudflare)

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prometheus_wireguard_exporter

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

prometheus-exporter Rust Wireguard wireguard-vpn

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boringtun		prometheus_wireguard_exporter
	Project
14	Mentions	4
5,805	Stars	448
1.4%	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	0.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

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boringtun

Posts with mentions or reviews of boringtun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-01.

WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024

Maybe https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun or https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go ?
I did some benchmarks of Linux WireGuard implementations
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 5 Jul 2023

Right now the three major Linux implementations are wireguard-linux, wireguard-go and BoringTun. With some recent improvements to wireguard-go I decided to benchmark each one of them with ping and iPerf 3 over TCP and UDP.
Wireguard user space Implementation not working after switching network connection
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 31 May 2023

It seems to be a known problem with boringtun: IP Roaming not working when using boringtun as a client (#187)
How Rust and Wasm power Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1
3 projects | /r/rust | 28 Feb 2023

They’ve been on the Rust train since at least 2019. Just look at projects like quiche, wrangler, and boringtun
Show HN: TunnlTo – Windows WireGuard split tunnel client built with Rust, Tauri
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2023

I assume since Wiresock is using BoringTun(https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun) under the hood, it works similar to other userspace implementations of wireguard, (e.g. wireguard-go, wireguard-rs) in that it uses a TUN device to deliver packets to the userspace implementation, and back out to the network. So, no driver installation required, but CAP_NET_ADMIN is required to create the TUN device.
Boringtun - Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust
1 project | /r/github_trends | 8 May 2022
Set up your own VPN at home with Raspberry Pi – Wolfang's Blog
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022
It's using some sort of a custom installer that also downloads Cloudflare's BoringTun (https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun) directly from the author's website (nyr[.]be), since Cloudflare doesn't seem to offer it as a binary release. Example:
```
    { wget -qO- https://wg.nyr[.]be/1/latest/download 2>/dev/null || curl -sL https://wg.nyr.be/1/latest/download ; } | tar xz -C /usr/local/sbin/ --wildcards 'boringtun-*/boringtun' --strip-components 1
```
Wireguard not working on Xen virtualization
3 projects | /r/WireGuard | 15 Mar 2022

https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go
BoringTun: Userspace WireGuard Implementation in Rust
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2021
A survey of AQM and fq_codel in enterprise bufferbloat battles
3 projects | /r/networking | 12 Nov 2021

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 boringtun and prometheus_wireguard_exporter you can also consider the following projects:

wireguard-go - Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go

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

boringtun-example - A real world ping example of boring tun

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

frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

unbound-telemetry - Prometheus exporter for Unbound DNS resolver

mullvadvpn-app - The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile

vopono - Run applications through VPN tunnels with temporary network namespaces

wireguard-p2p - A tool for setting up WireGuard connections from peer to peer.

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.

openvpn-install - Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS or Arch Linux.

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