kernwatch
Linux kernel observability in your terminal. Built with Rust and Ratatui.
Details
- External ID
- 1365220032
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- kernwatch
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 29
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7161798616448886
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal-based linux kernel observability tool for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 591 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #212 of 592 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- nix-compact · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- FSM · hn · 2026-06-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- RustyTux · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps) · hn · 2026-02-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- RealXV6 · hn · 2026-01-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- osu-echo · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Linux server management over SSH · hn · 2026-08-31 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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- No other launches for this product.
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