# groundcover-com/caretta

Instant K8s service dependency map, right to your Grafana.

Repository: https://github.com/groundcover-com/caretta
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/caretta
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: ebpf, kubernetes, observability
Last push: 2025-03-17T13:28:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 37/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 11, release rhythm 35, longevity 98
- inputs: {"age_days": 1381, "days_push": 534, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2055, forks 81 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:09.842402+00:00)

## What it is
Caretta is a lightweight standalone tool that uses eBPF to map all service network interactions in a Kubernetes cluster and visualizes them as a dependency map in Grafana. It installs via a Helm chart with bundled Victoria Metrics and Grafana instances, requiring no cluster modifications.

## Use cases
- visualize kubernetes service dependency map
- discover which services talk to each other in my k8s cluster
- ebpf-based network observability for kubernetes
- map microservice network traffic into grafana
- find unknown service connections in a cluster
- monitor pod-to-pod network interactions

## When to choose
- you want an instant, low-overhead service map for a Kubernetes cluster
- you already use Grafana and want network dependency data in it
- you need eBPF-based observability without modifying your workloads

## When to avoid
- you are not running Kubernetes
- you need deep application-level tracing or APM rather than network-level service mapping
- you cannot deploy privileged eBPF agents on your nodes

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, tracing, networking, data-visualization
- domain: monitoring, networking
- platform: self-hosted, cloud
- tags: ebpf, service-map, service-dependency, grafana, helm-chart, k8s-observability, victoria-metrics, network-observability, kubernetes, containers, devops, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- groundcover-com/caretta (main) score 37

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:09.842402+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:57:16.058169+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/groundcover-com/caretta (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:09.842402+00:00, sha 9b1874a3e637)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.