aya-rs/aya

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4784 stars · 472 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Aya is a Rust library for building and loading eBPF programs on Linux, implemented entirely in Rust without libbpf or BCC. It provides BTF-based compile-once-run-everywhere support, async compatibility, and a focus on developer experience.

Use cases

• write eBPF programs in Rust
• load and manage BPF programs from userspace
• build kernel observability tools without libbpf
• deploy a single eBPF binary across kernel versions
• trace kernel functions with kprobes and tracepoints
• build XDP network packet filters in Rust

When to choose

• you want to write eBPF programs and userspace loaders in pure Rust
• you need CO-RE portability across Linux kernel versions
• you want no runtime dependency on LLVM, BCC, or libbpf
• you want async (tokio/async-std) support in your loader

When to avoid

• you need eBPF on non-Linux platforms
• your team works primarily in C and prefers libbpf
• you need mature support for the newest eBPF features that libbpf exposes first

Facets

library · maturity active

developer-tools monitoring security tracing developer-tools operating-systems security monitoring rust ebpf bpf btf kernel observability pure-rust co-re linux

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