jr VS sniffnet

We have seen how to use JR in more advanced use cases, streaming quality random data with referential integrity. In the next part of this series, we will see how to use REST apis with JR. In the meanwhile, happy streaming!

Datagen is the de-facto standard to generate random data for Kafka. But customising what's generated is not something you can do in 30 seconds, and enabling compression is currently not an option with the managed connectors. So I decided to write a tool which you could use to easily start streaming random data to kafka in seconds, and that's why JR was born. With the help of some friends and colleagues we packed JR with a lot of features (and many more coming!)

Sniffnet is an open source, Rust-based network monitoring tool I’ve been working on for almost two years now.

As described in this issue the GUI library used by Sniffnet doesn't support yet text selection, but they are working on it and hopefully soon it will.

I’ll be personally talking about Sniffnet, the Rust-based network monitoring tool I’m working on: I’m so excited to share it with the world!

I'm the creator and maintainer of Sniffnet, an open-source network monitoring tool developed in Rust.

Sniffnet is a Rust-based network monitoring tool to help everyone inspect their Internet traffic.

Sniffnet, a cross-platform app to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic written in Rust, has now a website. See the related discussion on Github.

Another option is https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet if you are just trying to see what packets are flowing and who's talking. It's nowhere near as powerful as Wireshark (nor is it designed to be) but it might not be as confusing for someone who is new to network packet sniffing. I think the biggest downside is the Windows install file doesn't come with the NPCAP driver, I think they really need to bundle that with the installer the way Wireshark does, otherwise people may not get it to work.