kernwatch
Linux kernel observability in your terminal. Built with Rust and Ratatui.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 29 upvotes (top 28%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The terminal TUI interface in Ratatui is vibe-codeable, but gathering low-level Linux kernel observability data reliably requires eBPF or procfs/sysfs expertise.
What it would actually take: The stack uses Rust, Ratatui, and eBPF tooling (such as Aya or libbpf-rs). The difficult part is writing, verifying, and safely attaching eBPF programs to Linux kernel tracepoints or kprobes across diverse kernel versions, which requires systems programming and Linux kernel internals knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1723 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #520 of 1724 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- rstop · github · 2026-10-22 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- nix-compact · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- FSM · hn · 2026-06-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- RustyTux · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- gash · github · 2026-11-06 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- loaf-fm · github · 2026-10-16 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps) · hn · 2026-02-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- linux-security-hardening · github · 2026-10-01 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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