Wireshark VS Sysdig

Compare Wireshark vs Sysdig and see what are their differences.

Wireshark

Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead. (by wireshark)

Sysdig

Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers (by draios)
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Wireshark Sysdig
10 10
6,594 7,569
1.9% 0.7%
10.0 8.4
5 days ago 6 days ago
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Wireshark

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wireshark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-01.

Sysdig

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sysdig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-11.
  • Sysdig VS ThreatMapper - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 11 Apr 2022
  • Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening 101
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2022
    FWIU, e.g. sysdig is justified atop whichever MAC system.

    In the SELinux MAC system on RHEL and Debian, in /etc/config/selinux, you have SELINUXTYPE=minimal|targeted|mls. RHEL (CentOS and Rocky Linux) and Fedora have SELINUXTYPE=targeted out-of-the-box. The compiled rulesets in /etc/selinux/targeted are generated when

    With e.g gnome-system-monitor on a machine with SELINUX=permissive|enforcing, you can right-click the column header in the process table to also display the 'Security context' column that's also visible with e.g. `ps -Z`. The stopdisablingselinux video is a good SELinux tutorial.

    I'm out of date on Debian/Ubuntu's policy set, which could also probably almost just be sed'ed from the current RHEL policy set.

    > * SELinux is deny by default, while in systemd you're playing whack-a-mole anyway, and are expected to add directives one by one until the application stops working. Unit logs usually make it obvious if something was denied.*

    DENY if not unconfined is actually the out-of-the-box `targeted` config on RHEL and Fedora. For example, Firefox and Chrome currently run as unconfined processes. While decent browsers do do their own process sandboxing, SELinux and/or AppArmor and/or 'containers' with a shared X socket file (and drop-privs and setcap and cgroups and namespaces fwtw) are advisable atop really any process sandboxing?

    Given that the task is to generate a hull of rules that allow for the observed computational workload to complete with least-privileges, if you enable like every rule and log every process hitting every rung on the way down while running integration tests that approximate the workload, you should end up with enough rule violations in the log to even dumbly generate a rule/policy set without the application developer's expertise around to advise on potential access violations to allow.

    From https://github.com/draios/sysdig :

    > "Sysdig instruments your physical and virtual machines at the OS level by installing into the Linux kernel and capturing system calls and other OS events. Sysdig also makes it possible to create trace files for system activity, similarly to what you can do for networks with tools like tcpdump and Wireshark.

    Probably also worth mentioning: "[BETA] Auditing Sysdig Platform Activities"

  • Ask HN: What’s your favorite free, self-hosted monitoring dashboard?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2021
    DO offers metrics directly from the Dash, just sayin.

    Also, https://github.com/draios/sysdig

  • 2020, the year of unexpectedness
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2021
    fix(driver/bpf): exact check on bpf_probe_read_str() return value #1612
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2021
    The positive aspect of the lockdown was that having unexpected free time came in really handy to look at a set of strange issues (896, 1610) users were experiencing for some months (~October 2019) while trying to get Falco to work fine on some Linux kernels (with the eBPF driver, clearly).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Wireshark and Sysdig you can also consider the following projects:

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

pyshark - Python wrapper for tshark, allowing python packet parsing using wireshark dissectors

mtr - Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

perf-tools - Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace

Dripcap

Winshark - A wireshark plugin to instrument ETW

grml - Grmls core configuration files for zsh, vim, screen…

esp_wifi_repeater - A full functional WiFi Repeater (correctly: a WiFi NAT Router)

binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool

httpstat - curl statistics made simple

npcap - Nmap Project's Windows packet capture and transmission library