dropbox/goebpf

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1168 stars · 82 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library for loading, attaching, and interacting with eBPF programs, maps, and perf events on Linux. It supports XDP, socket filters, kprobes, and tc classifiers with a simple Load/Attach/Lookup API.

Use cases

• load and attach XDP programs from Go
• capture packets with an XDP dump tool
• read eBPF maps from a Go application
• trace kernel functions with kprobes
• stream perf events from eBPF to userspace

When to choose

• you need to drive eBPF programs from Go with a simple high-level API
• you want XDP, kprobe, or perf event support without writing C userspace code
• you need a mockable eBPF interface for testing Go code

When to avoid

• you need program types beyond socket filter, XDP, kprobe, or tc-cls
• you work in a non-Go language or need CO-RE/BTF-based portability tooling
• you need tc-act features, which are only partially implemented

Facets

library · maturity active

sdk developer-tools monitoring networking developer-tools networking operating-systems performance go cli ebpf xdp kprobe perf-events kernel bpf-maps packet-processing linux

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