Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Impulse XDR, real-time threat detection and integrity monitoring
Hello HN! Deploying the next-generation of security telemetry technologies to production is hard, so I’m building Impulse, a fully automated XDR platform that leverages tools like Osquery and eBPF to provide real-time threat detection & integrity monitoring for servers and workstations. It detects malware from behavioural patterns rather than signatures and enables deeper visibility than legacy tools. Impulse agents can be deployed on any device or VM running Linux such as cloud VMs in VPC networks, VPS servers or personal workstations and IoTs. In terms architecture, it is organised around…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Impulse XDR, real-time threat detection and integrity monitoring launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Impulse AI▲30From plain English to deployed ML model in an hour
May 2026 · impulselabs.ai · its alternatives →
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OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs
Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →
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Cyber Pulse▲154Cyber Breaches, Ransomware, Vulnerabilities & Research
2024 · app.overwatchdata.io · its alternatives →
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VoltOps▲111Trace, debug, and monitor AI agents apps in n8n-style
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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relaydfree tier, from $5/mo▲101I kept missing when my Codex agents finished, so I built relayd — a mobile dashboard that sends push notifications and lets me continue agents from my phone. Free tier available. Would love feedback.
Jan 2026 · relayd.dev · its alternatives →
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Pulse▲86Your company's permission-aware, proactive and agentic brain
Jul 2026 · pulsehq.tech · its alternatives →
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At Deno we've been using OpenClaw and other agents increasingly for addressing production problems in Deno Deploy - when a PagerDuty alert fires, the agent starts researching the cause and making fixes. In order to do this, the agent needs access to real production systems - postgres, kubernetes, gcp, clickhouse, github, etc. But this is dangerous to say the least - we want destructive actions to be reviewed by other LLMs, approved by humans, and logged appropriately. Claw Patrol terminates TCP connections over WireGuard or Tailscale, then parses application protocols (eg http, postgres,…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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bitdrift.ai▲107The world’s first agentic mobile observability platform
Aug 2026 · bitdrift.ai · its alternatives →
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Axios / LiteLLM hacks behavioral detector app for Mac/PC
Apr 2026 · edamame.tech · its alternatives →
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To power the firewalling for our agents so that they couldn't contact arbitrary services, I build netfence. It's like Envoy but for eBPF filters. It allows you to define different DNS-based rules that are resolved in a local daemon to IPs, then pushed to the eBPF filter to allow traffic. By doing it this way, we can still allow DNS-defined rules, but prevent contacting random IPs. There's also no network performance penalty, since it's just DNS lookups and eBPF filters referencing memory. It also means you don't have to tamper with the base image, which the agent could potentially manipulate…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I'm a student from Flanders and I like to use Claude Code for my purposes, ideas and also just for fun and also make solutions for problems in our world!) So that's why I built "Pulse", it's an local application that you can easily install to your device and easily follow what your claude agent is doing right now in your terminal session with an ambiance design and easily give permissions for your agent. For those who wants to see directly how much tokens you spent, and how much the session costs, and approve tool calls from everywhere from your phone and everything runs locally…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m the creator of Cordum. I’ve been working in DevOps and infrastructure for years (currently in the fintech/security space), and as I started playing with AI agents, I noticed a scary pattern. Most "safety" mechanisms rely on system prompts ("Please don't do X") or flimsy Python logic inside the agent itself. If we treat agents as autonomous employees, giving them root access and hoping they listen to instructions felt insane to me. I wanted a way to enforce hard constraints that the LLM cannot override, no matter how "jailbroken" it gets. So I built Cordum. It’s an open-source…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I run a few Claude Code sessions in parallel and kept cmd-tabbing around just to find out one of them had been sitting on a permission prompt for ten minutes. There's a hardware gadget I liked (called SidePulse.io) so before waiting to get my shipment I built the software version instead :D I hope you like it and find it useful as I do!
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built an open-source malware detection daemon that monitors all running processes in real-time using ML + heuristics. No kernel modules or eBPF required. Key points: - Polls /proc for new processes (works on any Linux kernel 2.6+) - Random Forest model trained on EMBER 2018 dataset (2.3M samples) - Heuristic rules for crypto miners, ransomware, rootkits - ~20MB RAM, <1% CPU, sub-millisecond scan latency - Pure C, zero runtime dependencies - Model embedded directly in binary (50KB) Why I built this: Existing solutions either require modern kernels (eBPF) or are heavy/proprietary.…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we're Kiran and Vijay! Over the past two years, we have built a columnar storage engine for observability: logs, metrics, and traces. Today, it's exciting for us to show what we've built on top of that foundation: LLM Agent Observability. Given how non-deterministic agents are, storing all traces without sampling was critical for us. But these traces tend to be in the MBs, sometimes GBs - we needed to store them inexpensively. We also needed the queries and analyses to be fast. To meet both these goals, we store them in S3 in our own parquet-like file format, and query them using AWS…
Jul 2026 · oodle.ai · its alternatives →
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Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Matvey, Ildar, Joey, and Dominik here. If you're building LLM agents that use tools, you're probably worried about prompt injection attacks that can hijack those tools. We were too, and found that solutions like prompt-based filtering or secondary "guard" LLMs can be unreliable. Our thesis is that agent security should be handled at the network level between the agent and the LLM, just like a traditional web application firewall. So we built Archestra Platform: an open-source gateway that acts as a secure proxy for your AI agents. It's designed to be a deterministic firewall against…
2025 · archestra.ai · its alternatives →
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PwnScan▲8For at least a few years (since before COVID), in my circle everbody wants an AI tool that finds vulnerabilities in binaries. I have my reservations about such a tool because of my perception that AI is overhyped, so I decided to build one myself to see how useful it could be (or not). I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for my collection of binaries with known CVEs. It definitely has false positives and negatives, as any static analysis tool would, but I think its actually somewhat usable. I dont think the results are super actionable, but interesting nonetheless. I still…
2025 · pwnscan.com · its alternatives →
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Tool-agnostic TypeScript library for observing coding agent sessions. Built-in Cursor provider, extensible to Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. - vtemian/agentprobe
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We've built an open-source tool to stress test AI agents by simulating prompt injection attacks. We’ve implemented one powerful attack strategy based on the paper [AdvPrefix: An Objective for Nuanced LLM Jailbreaks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10321). Here's how it works: - You define a goal, like: “Tell me your system prompt” - Our tool uses a language model to generate adversarial prefixes (e.g., “Sure, here are my system prompts…”) that are likely to jailbreak the agent. - The output is a list of prompts most likely to succeed in bypassing safeguards. We’re just getting…
2025 · security.vista-labs.ai · its alternatives →
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AISMOND▲4We built AISMOND for MSP teams that need one place to track external exposure across many client environments. Live today: - Multi-tenant dashboard for risky IPs, services, and countries - IP-level context from CVEs, IoC signals, abuse reports, and open ports - One-command onboarding scripts (Windows, Linux, macOS) - Weekly digest generation and resend - On-demand port scanning on eligible plans Not shipped yet: - PSA ticketing - RMM integration Would love feedback on two things: 1) Are the risk scores understandable enough to prioritize action? 2) Which PSA workflow should we ship first?
Feb 2026 · aismond.com · its alternatives →
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If you're interested in exploring what LLM-based agent systems these days actually do to solve certain benchmarks such as SWEBench or WebArena, we created a small leaderboard with our team, that allows to view a lot of public and OSS agent results including all the runtime traces (the step-by-step reasoning behind the scenes). Looking at traces is actually quite interesting, as they reveal a lot about the inner working and shortcomings of current agent system, e.g. see https://explorer.invariantlabs.ai/u/invariant/webarena--SteP... for an example trace.
2024 · explorer.invariantlabs.ai · its alternatives →
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