# Internet-Architecture-and-Security/PacketScope

🎯 A general-purpose protocol stack analysis and debugging tool based on eBPF 🧰

Repository: https://github.com/Internet-Architecture-and-Security/PacketScope
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/packetscope
Homepage: https://packetscope.net
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-12T10:01:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 74, longevity 29
- inputs: {"age_days": 418, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 95, "gap_med": 62, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1507, forks 61 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:55.153463+00:00)

## What it is
PacketScope is an open-source, eBPF-based protocol stack analysis and debugging tool for server-side network observability and defense. It combines packet tracing, latency/packet-loss statistics, topology visualization, low-level attack detection, and LLM/MCP integration into a Docker-deployed web application.

## Use cases
- diagnose network performance bottlenecks in the Linux protocol stack
- visualize packet paths and global network latency on a topology map
- detect stealthy low-level protocol stack attacks that WAFs and IDS miss
- track latency, packet loss, and interaction frequency per protocol layer
- integrate network analysis into LLM agents via MCP servers
- debug unclear transmission paths on production servers

## When to choose
- you need fine-grained, kernel-level packet tracing on Linux servers
- traditional WAF/IDS tools leave protocol-stack-level blind spots
- you want visualized network path and latency analysis with a web UI
- you want eBPF-based observability without the BCC runtime dependency

## When to avoid
- you need Windows or macOS host monitoring (eBPF is Linux-only)
- you only need simple packet capture without analysis (tcpdump/wireshark suffice)
- you cannot run Docker or root-privileged services on the target host
- you need a lightweight agent for edge or embedded devices

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, tracing, security, networking, data-visualization, mcp, llm-inference
- domain: networking, security, monitoring, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, go, python
- tags: ebpf, packet-analysis, protocol-stack, network-debugging, intrusion-detection, network-tracing, latency-analysis, packet-loss, mcp-server, llm-agent, devops, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- Internet-Architecture-and-Security/PacketScope (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.153463+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 2026-08-30T04:32:35.364802+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Internet-Architecture-and-Security/PacketScope (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.153463+00:00, sha b0e0fb4ac309)
  - homepage: https://packetscope.net (fetched 2026-08-29T11:36:56.054648+00:00, sha 5eef9376d69f)
  - site_page: https://packetscope.net/en/docs/get-started (fetched 2026-08-29T11:36:56.091903+00:00, sha ec88c3201575)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.