Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark

  • Long, long time user of Wireshark and I instantly recognize your name. Thank you for all the great work over the years :-)

    Looks really awesome! I didn't see Linux installation instructions so clicked on the link to the source code, but it links to the Wireshark source[1]. Is Stratoshark part of the same repo as Wireshark? Is Linux supported by Stratoshark?

    [1]: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark

  • The OP URL has been flagged as grayware by Palo Alto and is thus inaccessible to a large number of people, possibly indicating typosquatting, or being miscategorized?

    https://wiki.wireshark.org/Stratoshark is a good link for those who can't reach the stratoshark URL directly. The OP link may get recategorized and become accessible in the meantime.

  • Wireshark is to tcpdump as stratoshark is to strace.

    Did I get the analogy right?

  • The first section on the homepage doesn’t give me a good sense of what the application does. The references to Wireshark suggest it has something to do with network traffic but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It also talks about cloud but nothing seems to be cloud-specific?

  • Would I be right in assuming this is like Sysinternals procmon but with a better interface and for Linux?

  • clickable link: https://stratoshark.org

    I found its man page in the repo which I found insightful https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/ssv0.9.0/doc/m...

    and don't overlook this neato thing: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/ssv0.9.0/doc/m...

  • It is not clear what the architecture for system-call capture is. Is it ptrace, ebpf or some custom thing or some combo? What is the overhead of running this?

    The tool looks really cool, hopefully it moves ui state of art beyond windows xperf

  • We have a Python application that we develop inside Docker on macOS using the `python:3.11-slim-bullseye` image that it would be great to generate scap files from for viewing with Stratoshark. I tried installing sysdig in that image but ran into kernel module errors when trying to run it. Should we expect that to work? Am I missing an easier method?

  • Does sysdig (and stratoshark by extension) still require custom out-of-tree kernel module to function?

  • I just want to thank you for wireshark. I use it almost every day when I'm troubleshooting why this or that piece of industrial controls hardware springs a leak in its bit plumbing.

    You have the rare distinction of developing a tool that will probably outlive us all. So, thanks!

  • Being able to use Wireshark in Kubernetes is super exciting. I can't wait to get started!

  • Can this program do more than just observe and trace what happens?

    Can one use it to set up some rule to suppress some of the syscalls sent to a specific process? Or alter them by some logic on the go?

  • Wow, I've been a wireshark user for many years, this is really exciting.

  • Here's a interview with Gerald about Stratoshark (9 min)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjsmfuIqo8Q

  • How does it trace syscalls on macos? Do you need to disable SIP?

  • Re: custom fields in pcap traces and retis https://github.com/retis-org/retis

  • having used wireshark since i was a kid... this looks really promising