Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
Hi all, I'm excited to announce Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark that lets you capture and analyze process activity (system calls) and log messages in the same way that Wireshark lets you capture and analyze network packets. If you would like to try it out you can download installers for Windows and macOS and source code for all platforms at https://stratoshark.org. AMA: I'm the goofball whose name is at the top of the "About" box in both applications, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Stratoshark is a system analysis tool that captures and analyzes process activity—including system calls and log messages—using an interface similar to Wireshark's packet analysis approach. Designed for developers and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1WA
2012 · cloudshark.org · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 3SA
I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues. The two best things about it are: - It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container - It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.) With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping! Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP/HTTP/HTTPS) Two good things about it: - It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at…
2025 · dseltzer.gitlab.io · its alternatives →
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OpenStatus▲434Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you!
2025 · openstatus.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - My name is Andrew, and I'm a high school student. This is a write-up on StratoSpore, a payload I designed and launched to the stratosphere. The goal was to test if we could estimate physical altitude based on algae fluorescence (using a lightweight ML model trained on the sensor data). The blog post covers the full engineering mess/process, including: - The Hardware: Designing PCBs for the AS7263 spectral sensor and Pi Zero 2 W. -The biological altimeter: How I tried to correlate biological stress (fluorescence) with altitude. - The Communications: A custom lossy compression…
Nov 2025 · radi8.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I built babyshark, a terminal UI for PCAPs aimed at people who find Wireshark powerful but overwhelming. The goal is “PCAPs for humans”: Overview dashboard answers what’s happening + what to click next Domains view (hostnames first) → select a domain → jump straight to relevant flows (works even when DNS is encrypted/cached by using observed IPs from flows) Weird stuff view surfaces common failure/latency signals (retransmits/out-of-order hints, resets, handshake issues, DNS failures when visible) From there you can drill down: Flows → Packets → Explain (plain-English…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal. - kerlenton/mcpsnoop
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A pretty (simple) alternative to strace. Contribute to JakWai01/lurk development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wireshark-like forensic analysis for Model Context Protocol communications Capture, inspect, and investigate all HTTP requests and responses between your IDE and MCP servers - mcp-shark/mcp-shark
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 10LS
2020 · lynk.sh · its alternatives →
- 11MT
https://github.com/mcp-shark/mcp-shark Site: https://mcpshark.sh/ I built MCPShark, a traffic inspector for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It sits between your editor/LLM client and MCP servers so you can: • See all MCP traffic (requests, responses, tools, resources) in one place • Debug sessions when tools don’t behave as expected • Optionally run “Smart Scan” checks to flag risky tools / configs
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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ServiceRadar is an open-source platform for distributed, secure network management and observability, scaling to 100k+ devices. Born from frustration with complex traditional NMS tools like Zabbix, it bridges legacy (SNMP/syslog) and modern (gNMI, OTLP) protocols for cloud-native environments. We built ServiceRadar to simplify monitoring hybrid telecom networks, evolving it into a Kubernetes-native solution with Helm and Docker support. It uses mTLS with SPIFFE/SPIRE, NATS JetStream for event streaming (90M+ EPS), and SRQL for intuitive queries. Integrated with OpenTelemetry,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 13MV
A few days ago I posted MCPShark (a traffic inspector for the Model Context Protocol). I just shipped a VS Code / Cursor extension that lets you view MCP traffic directly in the editor, so you’re not jumping between terminals, logs, and "I think this is what got sent". VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MCPShark... Main repo: https://github.com/mcp-shark/mcp-shark Feature requests / issues: https://github.com/mcp-shark/mcp-shark/issues Site: https://mcpshark.sh/ If…
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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Hey Xinwei and Zecheng here, we are the authors of TraceRoot (https://github.com/traceroot-ai/traceroot). TraceRoot (https://traceroot.ai) is an open-source debugging platform that helps engineers fix production issues faster by combining structured traces, logs, source code contexts and discussions in Github PRs, issues and Slack channels, etc. with AI Agents. At the heart are our lightweight Python (https://github.com/traceroot-ai/traceroot-sdk) and TypeScript (https://github.com/traceroot-ai/traceroot-sdk-ts) SDKs -…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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the tcpkit was designed to make network packets programable with Lua script - git-hulk/tcpkit
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud rental system for crypto mining farms
2018 · stratumsphere.io · its alternatives →
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Tracking history of USB events on GNU/Linux. Contribute to snovvcrash/usbrip development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made a Windows process monitor for app developers and advanced end users. I wanted a taskmgr system-level graph view per app. Windows procmon, while capable, has always been tedious to set up (esp. if not used often). That's pretty much the whole idea behind the app--to simplify app-level monitoring, to make it easy. I hope some of you find it useful!
2025 · pragmar.com · its alternatives →
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An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This code is still in early beta, but i sincerley hope it will become as ubiquitous as VIM on Linux.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a simple single-file python program that can find basic XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities in a target url. Most XSS discovery tools use a payload refelection strategy in which payloads are injected in url parameters and the GET response is inspected for places where the payload content is reflected. This is a very low precision XSS detection strategy because most reflection does not support execution. This program uses a different approach, and instead opens the target url in a browser, tests alert(...) payloads directly in the browser context, and listens for an alert being…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m Arash, one of the founders of Strada (https://www.getstrada.com), a cloud IDE for building automation workflows across your company’s SaaS apps. Strada handles integrations, triggers, infrastructure and observability while letting you write core workflow logic in Python (more languages soon). It's for teams that hit limitations with low-code tools while building with internal apps — eg. Zendesk, Jira, Salesforce, Slack. You can access our docs at (https://docs.getstrada.com). While working on our first product (a unified accounting API), we learned that as…
2024 · getstrada.com · its alternatives →
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