Show HN: Starla – Unofficial Ripe Atlas Software Probe

Category: infrastructure

Tags: network-measurement, ripe-atlas, rust, monitoring

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

Starla is an unofficial RIPE Atlas software probe written in Rust that implements all major network measurement types (Ping, Traceroute, DNS, etc.) using a pure Rust SSH client, eliminating the OpenSSH dependency. It's interesting because it provides a modern, container-friendly alternative with features like persistent result queues, Prometheus metrics, and a minimal multi-arch container image.

Target audience: devops, network engineers, researchers

Repository: https://github.com/ananthb/starla · Rust · AGPL-3.0 · 1 stars

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