Network Monitor
a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux
Details
- External ID
- 46032074
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Nov. 24, 2025
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 156
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9344978165938864
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
A real-time network connection monitoring tool built with Rust and GTK4, displaying active connections with live I/O statistics in a modern graphical interface. https://github.com/grigio/network-monitor
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- linux network connection monitor
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Reading Linux socket/connection statistics via `/proc/net` or standard Linux networking crates paired with a GTK4 GUI in Rust is a well-documented task easily guided by an LLM.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Uptime Kuma, native rust libs, System Informer, btop
Concerns raised: Parsing ss output is fragile when output format changes, High memory usage for GTK4 application (130+ MB per instance), Slow startup time, Only shows /proc fs contents, not real-time connection details, AI slop in presentation
Feature requests: Use jc program for JSON parsing instead of regex, Use eBPF/XDP for real-time network protocol insights, Larger main screenshot showing actual application data view, Light/dark mode toggle, Windows-style power-user process explorer features
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 21 days after the earliest competitor.
- kernwatch · github · 2026-09-11 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FSM · hn · 2026-06-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PiMonitor v2.1 · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- INFRAON NMS · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PC-Monitor · github · 2026-09-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Port Sentinel · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Sigwire · hn · 2026-07-13 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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