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bpftrace
Discontinued High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF [Moved to: https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace] (by iovisor)
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BrowserBoxPro
Discontinued :cyclone: BrowserBox is Web application virtualization via zero trust remote browser isolation and secure document gateway technology. Embed secure unrestricted webviews on any device in a regular webpage. Multiplayer embeddable browsers, open source! [Moved to: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox]
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SaaSHub
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Sloth
Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.
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ecapture
Capturing SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF. Supported on Linux/Android kernels for amd64/arm64.
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libguestfs
library and tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. PLEASE DO NOT USE GITHUB FOR ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS. See the website for how to file a bug or contact us.
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parca-agent
eBPF based always-on profiler auto-discovering targets in Kubernetes and systemd, zero code changes or restarts needed!
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flamegraph
Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3 (by flamegraph-rs)
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ebpf
ebpf-go is a pure-Go library to read, modify and load eBPF programs and attach them to various hooks in the Linux kernel.
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nokogiri-rust
Discontinued Ruby FFI wrapper around scraper crate to be used instead of Nokogiri. Status: proof of concept.
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SaaSHub
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Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program
It is quite simple to use eBPF with uprobes to hook library calls, for example: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/sslsniff.py
The downside is this doesn't work with anything not using OpenSSL, there are projects like https://github.com/gojue/ecapture which have interceptors for many common libraries, but the downside is that needs different code for each library.
I think providing a TLS certificate is fine for the use cases of the tool; most tools won't be doing certificate pinning, but ecapture does support Android where this is more likely.
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Snooping on your GPU: Using eBPF to Build Zero-instrumentation CUDA Monitoring
Enter BCC-memleak. This is an eBPF-based tool that allows the user to find leaking memory by attaching it to a running process. All it took was compiling the leaking library with a debug flag, attaching memleak to my process, and voila. Within 30 minutes I had found the exact function call that was leaking memory, identified how much memory was leaking per call, and opened a PR for a one-line patch.
- Intentrace: Strace for Everyone
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Measuring Function Latency with eBPF
If you are looking for a production-ready tool for function latency measurement, you might want to check out the full implementation available in the BCC repository.
- Capturing SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF
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Show HN: Xcapture-bpf – like Linux top, but with x-ray vision
Yeah, I already see limitations, the last one was yesterday when I installed earlier Ubuntu versions to see how far back this can go - and even Ubuntu 22.04 didn't work out of the box, ended up with some BCC/kernel header mismatch issue [1] although the kernel itself supported it. A workaround was to download & compile the latest BCC yourself, but I don't want to go there as the customers/systems I work on wouldn't go there anyway.
But libbpf with CO-RE will solve these issues as I understand, so as long as the kernel supports what you need, the CO-RE binary will work.
This raises another issue for me though, it's not easy, but easier, for enterprises to download and run a single python + single C source file (with <500 code lines to review) than a compiled CO-RE binary, but my long term plan/hope is that I (we) get the RedHats and AWSes of this world to just provide the eventual mature release as a standard package.
[1] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/3993
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Decoding Network Traffic: The Vital Role of Telemetry in Understanding Network Activity
git clone https://github.com/iovisor/bcc.git mkdir bcc/build; cd bcc/build cmake .. make sudo make install cmake -DPYTHON_CMD=python3 .. # build python3 binding pushd src/python/ make sudo make install popd
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eBPF: Unleashing Kernel Magic for Modern Infrastructure
But wait, there's more! Enter the BCC toolkit and library, your trusty sidekick in simplifying the arcane art of writing eBPF applications. With BCC by your side, you'll be wielding eBPF like a seasoned pro in no time.
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Linux: Easy Keylogger with eBPF (2018)
Nice - I normally use [bash-readline](https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/bashreadlin...) when coworking/co-inhabiting a server or training someone.
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eBPF Documentary
One of the big wins is not so much “build and run your own stuff” but there are very nice low-cost (in terms of compute) performance utilities built on eBPF
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
There are so many utilities in that list; there’s a diagram midway down the readme which tries to help show their uses. bcc-tools should be available in any distro.
Also, Brendan Gregg does a ton of performance stuff that is worth knowing about if you check out his other work. Not eBPF only. Flame graphs are useful.
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